BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


FOR HIGH SCHOOL AND JUNIOR 

HIGH SCHOOL 


Graded and Classified 


Prepared for The National Council of 

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Teachers of English 


BY ITS 

COMMITTEE ON HOME READING 


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CONTENTS 


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Fiction. 5 

First Year and Junior High School.5 

Novels.9 

Short Stories.18 

Collections.21 

Plays.21 

Long.21 

Short.25 

Collections.26 

Poems.28 

Individual.28 

Collections.30 

Essays .32 

Interesting Non-Fiction.35 

Travel and Adventure.38 

Biography.43 

Letters.47 

Speeches.48 

Mythology, Legendary History, Folk-Lore, etc.49 


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NOTE TO STUDENTS 


Except for Fiction, all books are listed together regardless of the years in 
which they should be read. Under Fiction there is a separate list of books 
that should not be read above the first year of the regular (four-year) high 
school. These are meant for the first year and for the junior high school. 
Under all other headings, books of this kind are followed by the figure i and 
by no other figure. Such books should not be read after the first year unless 
the teacher, for some special reason, gives permission. 

The figures i, 2, 3, and 4 indicate the four years in the regular high-school 
course. Not very many books are set down for the first year only. There 
are many easy and interesting books that might be set down in this group. 
The makers of this list have preferred to select only a few. They feel that the 
young folks who enter high school, even junior high school, should be too 
ambitious too eager to “grow up,” to be contented with books written espe¬ 
cially for children. It is almost as easy, and much more interesting, to learn 
to enjoy the livelier and more readable of the books that grown-ups are reading. 

By looking at the descriptive headings and at the descriptions in parenthesis 
and at the numerals that follow, you can tell whether the book is likely to 
appeal to you. On the whole, a student gets the most good out of a book just 
a bit too old for him, just as in high-jumping, or other athletic sports, he is 
always trying to improve his record. Remember, too, that a book that bored 
you yesterday may interest you today. Yesterday you were too short to 
reach the shelf that you reach with ease today. Your mind grows as well as 
your body. Perhaps if you try the book again you will wonder why you 
could not see how good it was. 

A few books are marked 4X. These are a little too hard or too serious 
for the average student of the graduating year. But there are always students 
who are a little above the average, students who, like explorers and adventurers, 
like to attack tasks that look temptingly hard, that give them a chance to try 
their powers. These books are put here for their benefit. 

The wise student will not limit himself to books of one kind. Life has 
many sides and many interests and one needs to learn about them all. You 
can do that by selecting broadly and wisely from the varied list we have set 
before you. This may seem to disagree with the fact that we have given many 
books by one writer. The point is that you would not read these all at once 
and only these. It may, however, be possible to read these in other years 
or as additional reading in leisure moments. Do not think of reading as a 
school duty. It can become one of fife’s greatest pleasures. It is one of the 
finest habits you can form. And do not forget, in using this fist, that our 
object in making it is to help you find books you will like to read. 


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FOR THE FIRST YEAR AND FOR JUNIOR 

HIGH SCHOOL 

FICTION ONLY 

(Not to be credited in higher grades without special permission) 

See also, in the General List, books followed by the numeral i, or by no 
numeral. Any book from the General List may be read with the teacher’s 


permission. For aU subjects except Fiction, see 

the General List. 

indicates a book too short for full credit. 


Adventure in Strange Places 


Castaway Island 

Newberry 

Aztec Treasure House 

Janvier 

In Desert and Wilderness 

Sienkiewicz 

Alan Quartermain 

Haggard 

Also: King Solomon’s Mines 


The Siamese Cat 

Rideout 

Also: Cowrie Dass, and others 


Swiss Family Robinson 

Wyss 

Adventure in Old Days 


Hereward the Wake 

Kingsley 

Last of the Barons 

Lytton 

Men of Iron 

H. Pyle 

Also: Merry Adventures of Robin Hood 


Quentin Durv^ard - 

Scott 

Robin Hood 

Tappan 

Modem Boys in Mischief 


Tom Sawyer 

Clemens (Twain) 

Also: Huckleberry Finn 


The Varmint (Pranks in an American school) 

0 . Johnson 

Also: The Tennessee Shad, and others 


Stalky and Company (English boys in mischief) 

Kipling 

Penrod 

Tarkington 

Also: Penrod and Sam, and others 


The Story of a Bad Boy 

T. B. Aldrich 


Fairies and Pleasant Fancies (for girls) 

At the Back of the North Wind G. MacDonald 

The Treasure Seekers E. Nesbit 

Also: The Would-be-Goods 


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BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


King of the Golden River (i/2) 
The Pool of Stars 
Also: Windy Hill 
The Little Lame Prince 


John Ruskin 
Meigs 

Craik 


School Sports and School Leadership (for boys) 


Tom Brown’s School Days (At Rugby, Eng¬ 
land) 

Behind the Line 

Also: The Honour of the School, Round the 
End, and others 
Deering of Deal 
High Benton 


Hughes 

Barbour 


Griswold 

Heyliger 


Stories of the Home (especially interesting to girls) 


Little Women 

Also: Eight Cousins, Under the Lilacs, and 
others 
Emmy Lou 

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 
Understood Betsy 


L. Alcott 


G. M. Martin 
K. D. Wiggin 
Fisher (Canfield) 


Unlikely, but Exciting 

Round the World in Eighty Days Verne 

Also: The Mysterious Island, Twenty 
Thousand Leagues under the Sea 
The War in the Air Wells 

Also: The War of the Worlds 


With Charm and Beauty 
The Secret Garden 

Water Babies (Abridged edition by Menzies) 

Jackanapes 

Betty Leicester 

The Lost Prince 

Peter and Wendy 

Little Boy Lost (Among savages) 

Young Americans 

A Jolly Fellowship 
The Young Surveyor 
Dab Kinzer 


F. H. Burnett 

Kingsley 

Ewing 

Jewett 

Burnett 

Barrie 

Hudson 


Stockton 

Trowbridge 

Stoddard 


Boys Who Made Good 

The Lance of Kanana (Arab story) French 

Simba .... (Africa) S. E. White 


BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


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A Son of the State (England) 

Ungava Bob (Trapping in the North) 

Also: Grit-a-Plenty (Trapping in the North) 

History Made Alive 

Ben-Hur (The times of Christ) 

Dri and I (American Revolution) 

Story of Ab (Primeval man) 

Phra the Phoenician (Glimpses of different 
ages) 

Cudjo’s Cave (Americkn) 

Red Belts (Indian fighting) 

History and Sentiment 

The Scottish Chiefs 
The Dove in the Eagle’s Nest 
Master Will of Stratford 
Master Skylark 

Explorers and Adventurers 

Prester John 
Also: Greenmantle 
The Ivory Trail 

Also: King of the Khyber Rifles, and others 
More History in Which Things Happen 

Otto of the Silver Hand (Old England) 

The Raiders (Scottish Border) 

Story of Viteau (France) 

The Black Arrow (Days of Ivanhoe) 

The Spartan (A story of Thermopylae) 

The Victor of Salamis (Greek naval victory) 

A Yankee Girl at Bull Run 

Tales of the West 

Riders of the Purple Sage 
Also: Lost Trail, Mysterious Rider, and 
others 

In Early England 

The Prince and the Pauper 
The March to London 
Long Will 

The Dragon and the Raven 

Interesting Animals 

The Jungle Books (two series) 


E. P. Ridge 
Wallace 


L. Wallace 

I. Bacheller 
Waterloo 

E. Arnold 

Trowbridge 

Pendexter 

J. Porter 
Yonge 
Garnett 

J. Bennett 

Buchan 

Mundy 


Pyle 

Crockett 

Stockton 

Stevenson 

Snedeker 

W. H. Davis 

Curtis 

Z. Grey 


Clemens (Mark Twain) 

Henty 

Converse 

Henty 


Kipling 


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BOOKS FOR tIOME READING 


The Call of the Wild 

London 

Also: Jerry of the Islands, Michael, brother 
of Jerry, and White Fang 

Lad, a Dog 

Terhune 

Stickeen (An interesting dog) 1/2 

Muir 

GreyfriaFs Bobbie 

Atkinson 

Biography of a Grizzly 

Seton-Thompson 

Beyond Rope and Fence (Wild horses) 

Grew 

Adventures by Sea 

Tom Paulding 

Matthews 

Richard Carvel 

W. Churchill 

Martin Hyde 

Masefield 

Also: Jim Davis 

Midshipman Easy 

Marryat 

Also many others 

Captains Courageous 

Kipling 

Captain Kettle 

Hyne 

Short Stories 

Sarah Crewe and Other Stories (Girls like them) 

Burnett 

Daddy-Long-Legs (A Girl and her guardian) 

Webster 

A Man Without a Country, and Other Stories 

Hale 

Little Book of Profitable Tales 

Field 

Also: Christmas Stories 

Tales of the Fish Patrol (Exciting adventure) 

London 

Gallegher and Other Stories (Very interesting) 

Davis 

Also: Van Bibber Stories (also good); 

Ransom’s Folly 

Fanciful Tales (Fairy and all sorts) 

Stockton 

Christmas Stories 

Dickens 

Tales from Shakespeare (Charmingly retold) 

Lamb 

Nights with Uncle Remus (Negro animal 

stories) 

Flarris 

Peterkin Papers (Peterkin gets things mixed) 

L. P Hale 

Elm Island Stories (Old-time down-east) 

Kellogg 


There are several in the series 
Three in one group, all about Lincoln: 

The Perfect Tribute (Andrews), Counsel 
Assigned (Andrews), He Knew Lincoln 
(Tarbell) 

A Dog of Flanders and Ihe Nurnberg Stove Ramee (Ouida) 

(For collections of short stories, see the end of the General List. For all subjects 
except Fiction, see. the General List.) 


GENERAL LIST 

(Books for all grades. The numerals at the end of each line indicate the years in 
which each book should be read. By permission of the teacher, any book may be read 
in other years than those indicated.) 


FICTION 

NOVELS 

Stories of the Sea 

Sinful Peck (A tale of shanghaiing) M. Robertson i, 2 

The Wreck of the Grosvenor (a good yarn) W. C. Russell 1,2 

Also: Marooned, My Danish Sweetheart 
Gappy Ricks (Pacific shipping) P. B. Kyne 1,2 

The Sea Wolf (With character-study) London 2,3 

Satan (Introducing “a merry devil”) Stacpoole 1,2 

Also: The Beach of Dreams 2,3 

Lost Endeavor (With hidden treasure) Masefield i)2,3 

Treasure Island Stevenson i, 2 

The Cruise of the Cachalot (Whaling) Bullen i, 2 

She Blows, and Sparm at That (Whaling) Hopkins i, 2 

Moby Dick (The great white whale) H. Melville 2,3 

Typhoon (How a hurricane showed character) Conrad 3,4 

Also: Children of the Sea (also called The 

Nigger of the Narcissus) 3,4 

The Growth of Character 

Fortitude (A boy meets life and its troubles) Walpole 4 

Miss Lulu Bett (A drudge finds herself) Z Gale 3,4 

(Also in the form of a play) 

Sussex Gorse (The cost of winning the game) S. Kaye-Smith 4X 

The House of Mirth (The price of pleasure) Wharton 4 

The Sailor (A hard wrestle with life) Snaith 4 

Changing Winds (Gaining courage and experi¬ 
ence) Ervine 4 

Command (At sea, during the Great War) McFee 4 

American History 

Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker (American Revolu¬ 
tion) Mitchell 2,3 

In the Valley (The Mohawk Valley in the 

Indian war) Frederick 2,3 

Janice Meredith (American Revolution) Ford 2,3 


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lo BOOKS FOR HOME READING 

The Heart’s Highway (Early Jamestown, 1700) Freeman 2,3 

The Conqueror (Alexander Hamilton) Atherton 3,4 

The Deerslayer (A wonderful novel of pioneer 

days) Cooper i, 2 

Also (in order): Last of the Mohicans Path¬ 
finder, Pioneers, Prairie 
(See also under stories of the sea) 

The West and Other Wild Places 

The Virginian (Cowboys and the like) Wister i, 2 

The Riverman (Lumbering) S. E. White i, 2 

Aho: The Blazed Trai 

Rider of the King Log Day 1,2 

The Magnetic North (Alaska) Robins i, 2 

A Man for the Ages (Lincoln’s life and char¬ 
acter) Bacheller 1,2 

Also: In the Days of Poor Richard (Frankhn 
and his times) 

Readable Romance 

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (Hill country) Fox 1,2 

Also others of the same type 

Black Rock Conner 1,2 

Also: Glengarry Schooldays, The Man from 
Glengarry, The Sky Pilot 

Red Rock Page 1,2,3 

V. V’s Eyes Harrison 2,3 

Dr. Sevier (A tale of the old South) Cable 2,3 

With a Touch of Sentiment 

A Princess of Thule (A girl from the Hebrides) W. Black 2,3,4 

Also: Judith Shakespeare (William Shake¬ 
speare’s daughter) 

Maria Chapdelaine (A girl on a Canadian farm) Hemon 3,4 

The Beloved Vagabond (A simple, unworldly 

hero) Locke 2,3 

Also: Septimus, Simon the Jester The 
House of Baltazar and others 

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (poetic) Farjeon 3,4 

Colonel Carter of Cartersville (Old South) F. H. Smith 1,2,3 

A Kentucky Cardinal (Poetic and imaginative) J. L. Allen 2,3 

The Old Gentleman of the Black Stock 

(Southern) T. N. Page 1,2,3 


BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


Famous Novels, Always Good 

Adam Bede (A study of sturdy manliness) 
Also: The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, 
Felix Holt, Radical 

The House of Seven Gables (Old New England) 
Also: The Scarlet Letter 
David Copperfield (A fictitious autobiography) 
Also: Great Expectations, Old Curiosity 
Shop, Oliver Twist, Bamaby Rudge, 
Nicholas Nickleby,Our Mutual Friend, 
Bleak House, Martin Chuzzlewit, 
Little Dorrit, Dombey and Son 


Evans 


Hawthorne 

Dickens 


2 , 3,4 


3,4 


3,4 


Stories with Human Interest 


Buried Alive (But not literally) 

A. Bennett 

3,4 

An Amazing Interlude (A war story) 

Rinehart 

2,3 

The Light that Failed (Tragic) 

Kipling 

2,3 

Sentimental Tommy (A boy in Scotland) 

Barrie 

3,4 

Sequel: Tommy and Grizel 


4 X 

The Right of Way (In French Canada) 

G. Parker 

2,3 

Tom Grogan 

F. H. Smith 

2 

Also: Caleb West, Master Diver 


2 

Character and Conflict 

The Bent Twig (Child and woman) 

Also: Rough-Hewn, The Brimming Cup 

Fisher (Canfield) 

3,4 

The Iron Woman (Lonely strength) 

Deland 

4 

Also: The Awakening of Helena Richie 


4 

Ditte, Girl Alive (The fight with hardship) 

Nexo 

4 X 

The Master of Ballantrae (Selfish pride) 

Stevenson 

3,4 

Christopher Hibbault Roadmaker (Resolution) 

Bryant 

3,4 

The Duchess of Wrexe (Strength and weakness) 

Walpole 

4 

The Man of Property (Pride of estate) 

Lord Jim (The “coward” makes good) 

Galsworthy 

4 

(Difficult) 

Conrad 

4 X 

One of Ours (The Western boy at the front) 
Also: My Antonia (study of an immigrant), 
0 Pioneers 

Cather 

3;4 

Casuals of the Sea (Character and circumstance) 

McFee 

3,4 

Toilers of the Sea (A hard fight lost) 

Hugo 

3,4 

The Interest of Uneventful Lives 

Cranford (An English village) 

Gaskell 

2 , 3,4 

Country of the Pointed Firs (Maine) 

Also: The Country Doctor, Deephaven 

Jewett 

3,4 


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BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


Pride and Prejudice (English rural society, 

1800) Austen 3,4 

Also: Sense and Sensibility 
Elizabeth and Her German Garden (She mar¬ 
ried a German) Arnim 3,4 

The Portygee (Cape Cod life) Lincoln i, 2 

Also: Mr. Pratt, Capt. Eri, Galusha the 
Magnificent, and others 

The Privet Hedge (English small town) Jameson (Buckrose) 

Also: The Round-about, and others 

Barchester Towers (A quiet study) Trollope 3,4 

Also: The Warden 

The Return of the Native (Real but depressing) Hardy 3,4 

Social and Industrial Problems 

Clark’s Field (Responsibilities of inherited 

wealth) Herrick 3,4 

Also: The Common Lot 

A Certain Rich Man (What his wealth cost him) W. A. White 3,4 

The Rise of Silas Lapham (Studying social 

levels) Howells 3,4 

The Inside of the Cup (Money-changers in the 

temple) Churchill 3,4 

Also: Mr, Crewe’s Career (The boss in poli¬ 
tics) 2,3 

The Honorable Peter Stirling (The boss and the 

party) Ford 2,3 

Turmoil (Business and the business world) Tarkington 2,3,4 

Also: Alice Adams, The Magnificent Amber- 
sons (Social studies) 

Babbitt (Study of a narrow-minded business 

man) Lewis ’3,4 

Also: Main Street (A study of narrowed 
minds) 

All Sorts and Conditions of Men (Problems of 

equality) Besant 2,3 

Humorous Stories 

Rudder Grange (A floating home) Stockton 2,3 

(Several good sequels) 

Also: The Casting Away of Mrs. Leeks and 
Mrs. Aleshine, The Squirrel Itm, and a 
number of others 


BOOKS FOR HOME READING 13 

Tartarin of Tarascon (He thought himself a 

hero) Daudet 2,3 

Also: Tartarin on the Alps (and other 
sequels) 

Pickwick Papers (Doings of the Pickwick Club) Dickens 2,3 

The Breaking in of a Yachtsman’s Wife (By 

herself) Vorse 1,2,3 

The Haunted Bookshop (A fantastic tale) Morley 2,3 

Also: Parnassus on Wheels, Where the Blue 
Begins 

Knickerbocker’s History of New York (More 

humor than history) Irving 2,3 

(In simplified form: Knickerbocker Stories) i 

In Tropic and Romantic Lands 

The Purple Land (Poetic South American 

romance) Hudson 2,3,4 

Also: Green Mansions (Similar) 2,3,4 

The Blue Lagoon Stacpoole 2,3 

Also: Pools of Silence (Congo atrocities, a 
fine story), The Man Who Lost Him¬ 
self, The Street of the Flute-Player, 

The Ghost Giri 

The Leopard Woman (African exploration. 

Exciting) S. E. White • 1,2 

Studies of Life and Human Nature 

Joseph Vance (A boy and his father and two 

girls) DeMorgan 4 

Also: Somehow Good (The right sort of 

folks come out right), Alice-for-Short 4 

(A waif and a ghost and the long-ago) 4 

Vanity Fair (The vanities of the world) Thackeray 4 

The Marriage of William Ashe (English society) H. Ward 4 

The Eldest Son (Life in England) Marshall 4 

The Green Mirror (Meanings of life) H. Walpole 4 

Memoirs of a Midget (A sympathetic study) De la Mare 4X 

The Amusing Side of Life 

Seventeen (A boy’s heart-affairs) Tarkington 1,2,3 

Kipps (A young Cockney gets money and 

learns lessons) H. G. Wells 2,3,4 

Also: Bealby, and The History of Mr. Polly 
(both amusing pictures of life and 
character) 


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BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


Charles O’Malley (A rollicking Irish tale) Lever i, 2 

Rory O’More (Like the above) Lever i, 2 

Also: Handy Andy 

Patsy (An original Irish lad) Stacpoole i, 2 

The Caravaners (A conceited nuisance tells 

his story) Arnim i, 2 

Humor Seasoned with Sentiment 

Lilac Sunbonnet (Humor and love-making) Crockett 2,3 

Alice and a Family (Alice “runs” things) Ervine i)2,3 

Helen with the High Hand (A bit like Alice) A. Bennett 2,3 

The Cardinal’s Snuff-box (Graceful) Harland 2,3 

Mystery and the Detection of Crime 

(See also under Short Stories) 

Through the Wall (A real “thriller”) Moffet 1,2 

The Moonstone (Who stole the jewel?) W. Collins i)2,3 

The Grey Room (A well-made mystery tale) E. Phillpotts i>2,3 

Also: Brunei’s Tower 

The Circular Staircase Rinehart i, 2 

Anne (An excellent detective story) Woolson 2 

Pudd’nhead Wilson (With humor and char¬ 
acter) Clemens (Twain) 

Novels that Everybody Reads 

Lorna Doone (A tale of wildest Exmoor) Blackmore 1,2,3,4 

The Newcomes (A study of people as they are) Thackeray 3,4 

Guy Mannering (Smugglers, gypsies, etc.) Scott i>2,3 

Jane Eyre (One of the great romances) C. Bronte 3,4 

Fantastic Tales, with Surprises 

The Dynamiter (Amusing and exciting) Stevenson 3,4 

(Related to The New Arabian Nights by the 
same) 

Spanish Gold (Amusing adventure) Hannay (Birmingham)2,3 

Also: General John Regan, The Major’s 
Niece, and others 

Huntingtower (The boy scouts foil the villain) Buchan 1,2 

Tish (Adventures of an old maid who does 

things) Rinehart i, 2 

Messer Marco Polo (Poetic, yet exciting) D Byrne 3,4 

The Invisible Man (Impossible but made 

likely) H. G. WeUs 


2,3 


BOOKS FOR HOME READING 15 

Also: The Time Machine, The Wonderful 
Visit and others 

The Bottle Imp (Hawaiian and supernatural) Stevenson i, 2 

Stirring Historical Novels 

Fifty-Four Forty or Fight (Western Pioneers) E. Hough i, 2 

Also: The Covered Wagon 

To Have and To Hold (Old Jamestown) M. Johnston 1,2,3 

The White Company (In days of Chivalry) Doyle 1,2,3 

Also: Sir Nigel (The young knight), 1,2 

Micah Clarke (Days of Charles II) 1,2,3 

The Crisis (The Civil War) W. Churchill i, 2 

In the Seats of the Mighty (French and Indian) G. Parker 2,3 

The Spy (In the Revolution) Cooper i, 2 

Also: Miles Wallingford (Early New York) 

The Romance of Dollard (Indians and French¬ 
men) Catherwood 2 

Studies of Past Ages 

Ninety-Three (France in Revolution) Hugo 2,3,4 

Kenilworth (The days of Elizabeth) Scott 3,4 

The Cloister and the Hearth (Medieval) C. Reade 3,4 

Romola (Italian Renaissance) Evans 3,4 

Henry Esmond (England of Addison) Thackeray 4 

St. Ives (Scotland in Scott’s time) Stevenson 3,4 

The Long Roll (Stonewall Jackson in Civil War) M. Johnston 3,4 

Sequel: Cease Firing 

Westward Ho (Elizabethan sea life) C. Kingsley 3,4 

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Clemens (Twain) 2,3,4 

Hypatia (Early Christianity) C. Kingsley 4 

Solid Books, Worth Reading 

John Halifax, Gentleman (A study in character) Craik 3,4 

Mary Barton (Industrial problems, Yorkshire) Gaskell 3,4 

Clayhanger (English Manufacturing today) A. Bennett 4 

Also: Old Wives’ Tale 4x 

The Harbor (Problems of the Brooklyn water¬ 
front) E. Poole 3,4 

Strange Times and Peoples 

With Fire and Sword (Early Polish Wars) Sienkiewicz 1,2,3,4 

Sequels’ The Deluge. Pan Michael 
Also: Knights of the Cross The Field of Glory 
Les Miserabies (Paris and France a century ago) Hugo 2,3,4 


16 BOOKS FOR HOME READING 

Ivanhoe (Saxon and Norman in old England) Scott i, 2 

Also: The Talisman (Crusades), The Abbot 
(Mary of Scotland) 

El Supremo (A despot of Paraguay) E. L. White 4 

Nostromo (A strong, noble character) Conrad 4 

Disenchanted (Turkish women’s lives) Loti 4 

Kim (A boy adrift in India) Kipling i j 2,3 

Ramona (Our treatment of the Indian) H. H. Jackson 1,2,3 

An Iceland Fisherman (French fishing life) Loti 3,4 

Chita (Romance of Mississippi Delta) Hearn 4 

Captain Macklin (In Latin America) R. H. Davis i, 2 

Novels that Everybody Reads 

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Dual personality) Stevenson 2,3,4 

Also: Kidnapped (Adventures of a Scotch 

lad) 1,2,3 

Sequel: David Balfour 

The Little Minister (Scotch romance) Barrie 1,2,3 

The Count of Monte Cristo (A famous novel) Dumas 1,2 

Ancient Rome Brought to Life 

Last Days of Pompeii (Exciting and romantic) Lytton i, 2 

A Friend of Caesar (A live book) W. H. Davis 1,2,3 

Quo Vadis (Days of Nero and Petronius) Sienkiewicz 2,3,4 

Andivius Hedulio (Strange and exciting) E. L. White 3,4 

Also: The Unwilling Vestal (Lively) 3,4 

When Men Used Swords 

A Gentleman of France (With much action) Weyman 1,2,3 

Also: Under the Red Robe 

Monsieur Beaucaire (A gentleman disguised) Tarkington 1,2 

The Prisoner of Zenda (In a made-up kingdom) Hawkins (Hope) i, 2 

The Glorious Rascal (“If I Were King”) McCarthy 1,2 

The Pride of Jennico Castle i, 2 

I he Helmet of Navarre (In romantic France) Runkle 1,2 

Three Musketeers (An unequaled romance) Dumas i, 2 

For the order of the sequels, consult a librarian 
Reds of the Midi (The French Reign of Terror) Gras i, 2 

The Scarlet Pimpernel (French Revolution) Orczy 
For sequels, consult the librarian 

Classic Stories that Will Li’^^e Forever 

Robinson Crusoe (Don’t use an abridged, 

child’s edition) Defoe 1,2 

Gulliver’s Travels (A story with underlying 

meanings) Swift i, 2 


BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


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Don Quixote (Ridiculing sentimental romantic 


chivalry) 

Recommended, one of the following: Don 
Quixote of the Mancha (Parry) Illustrated 
by Crane 

Don Quixote of LaMancha, Illustrated by 
Robinson 

Adventure of Don Quixote (edited by Woolf) 

Cervantes 

i>2,3,4 

Pilgrim’s Progress (The greatest allegory) 
Aucassin and Nicolette (Ancient French 

Bunyan 

1,2,3 

romance, very quaint and pretty) 

(Anonymous) 

3,4 

The Arabian Night’s Entertainment 

Sometimes called the Thousand and One 
Nights. There is the ordinary version and 

(Anonymous) 

1,2 

a more oriental, but harder one by Lane. 
Also: Stories from the Arabian Nights 

Olcott (Ed.) 

3,4 

(Riverside) 

When Gentlemen Wore Wigs and Took Snuff 
The Vicar of Wakefield (An amusing study of a 


I (only) 

simple nature) 

Goldsmith 

1,2,3 

The Jessamy Bride (Goldsmith had met her) 

Moore 

2 

An Amateur Gentleman (Poetic romance) 

Also: The Broad Highway 

Farnol 

2,3 

Evelina (A famous novel by a young girl) 

Burney 

3,4 

Discovering “Evelina” (Finding the author) 
The Chaplain of the Fleet (A fine picture of old 

Moore 

2,3 

days) 

Doings at Sea 

Besant 

2,3 

The Mutineers (An eventful voyage) 

Also: The Quest 

Hawes 

1,2 

Captain Blood (Pirate and gentleman) 

Also: The Sea-Hawk (Oriental piracy) 

Sabatini 

1,2,3 

The Brassbounders (Apprentice ship’s officers) 

Bone 

1,2 

Wing-and-Wing 

Also: The Red Rover, Two Admirals, Sea- 
lions 

Left Over and Unclassified 

The Red Badge of Courage (How one feels in 

Cooper 

I|2 

battle) 

Crane 

2,3 

The New June (Old England imder the new) 
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (A creditable 

Newbolt 

3,4 

“crime”) 

A. France 

3 


i8 


BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (Odd fairy 


tales) 

Lagerlof 

2,3 

The Blue Flower (Delicate and poetic) 

VanDyke 


Friendship Village 

Gale 

2,3 

Bob, Son of Battle (A fine dog) 

Ollivant 

1,2 

The Hoosier Schoolmaster (Old days) 

Eggleston 

1,2 

Undine (A wet fairy) ( 1 / 2 ) 

Fouque 

1 :2 

The Golden Age (Childhood, looked back upon) 

Graham 

2,3 

Jeremy (A story of boyhood and developing self) 

Walpole 

2,3,4 

The Girl from the Marshcroft 

Lagerlof 

2,3 

Also: Gosta Berling 

The Happy Warrior 

Hutchinson 

2,3 

Also: Once Aboard the Lugger 

SHORT STORIES 

Stories of the Sea 

Walking Shadows (War stories) 

Noyes 

2,3 

Many Cargoes (English coastwise shipping. 



humorous) 

Jacobs 

2,3 

Also: Captains All, Sailors’ Knots, and others 
Out of Gloucester (Tales of fishermen, etc.) 

Connolly 

1,2 

Also: Deep Waters, and others 

Spun-Yarn (Sea stories of an unusual sort) 

Robertson 

1,2 

Also: Down to the Sea, and others 

A Set of Six 

Conrad 

3,4 

Also: Youth 

Far Places and Strange Doings 

Plain Tales from the Hills (Army in India) 

Kipling 

1 , 2,3 

Also: Under the Deodars, Many Inventions, 
Soldiers Three, The Day’s Work, 
Diversity of Creatures, Actions and 
Reactions, and many others. (Read 
any.) 

Tales of the Pampas (South American) 

Hudson 

2,3 

Tales from the Alhambra (Moorish Spain) 

Irving 

1,2 

Also: Tales of a Traveller, The Sketch Book 
(With some essays) 


1,2 

Stories with a Way of Their Own 

The Four Million (Short stories with queer 

0. Henry 

2,3 


twists) 

Also: Cabbages and Kings, and many other 


volumes all of the same general char¬ 
acter. All recommended. 


BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


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The Stolen Story and Other Stories Williams i, 2 

Tales from a RoU-Top Desk Morley 2,3,4 

While Paris Laughed (Clever tales, rather 

cynical) Merrick 3,4 

The Wood-Fire in No. 3 F. H. Smith 2,3 

The Lady or the Tiger and Other Stories Stockton 2,3 

Also: AU his collections of short stories 

From Interesting Neighborhoods 

Beside the Bormie Briar Bush (A Scotch village) Maclaren 2,3 

Tiverton Tales (New England) A. Brown 2,3 

Also: Meadow-Grass 

A Humble Romance and Other Stories Freeman (Wilkins) 2,3 

Also: A New England Nun, and other vol¬ 
umes, all recommended 

In Ole Virginia Page i, 2 

Tales of the White Hills (White Mountains, 

New England) Hawthorne i, 2 

Pierre and His People (French Canada) Parker 2,3 

The Luck of Roaring Camp (The early West) Bret Harte i, 2 

Main Travelled Roads (Middle West) Garland 2,3 

Also: They of the High Trails (Western 

Mountains) i, 2 

In the Tennessee Mountains Murfree (Craddock) 2,3 

Tales of the Labrador Grenfell i: 2 

Harbor Tales Down North (Labrador and New- 

f oundl and) D uncan 1)2,3 

Also: Adventures of Billy Topsail, and other 
collections, all recommended. 

Old Chester Tales (Studies of quiet hfe) Deland 2,3 

Also: Dr. Lavendar’s People 

Children of the Ghetto Zangwill 3,4 

Fairy Tales (See also Mythology) 

Stories (These are not merely for children) H. C. Andersen i)2,3 

Irish Fairy Tales (Strange ones) Yeats 2,3 

Also: Stories of Red Hanrahan 

Donegal Fairy Tales (Also other plumes) McManus 2,3 

Great Foreign Stories 

The Odd Number (Selected tales) DeMaupassant 3,4 

Monday Tales (Stories for Monda aper) Daudet 2,3 

The Long Exile and Other Stories Tolstoi 4 

Also: Twenty-Three Tales 

Stories from Russian Life (Trans, by Fall) Tchekov 


4 


20 


BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


A Mixed Group 


The Golden Windmill and Other Stories 

Aumonier 

1,2 

Thirty Strange Stories (Scientific Fantasies) 

Wells 

1,2,3 

The Merry Men and Other Stories 

Stevenson 

3,4 

Also: All short stories by Stevenson 



Mystery and Detected Crime 



Tales (The greatest stories of their kind) 

The Wisdom of Father Brown (Rather fan¬ 

Poe 

I,2,3,4 

tastic) 

Also: The Innocence of Father Brown 

Chesterton 

2,3 

Old Judge Priest (Who sees the right thing and 



does it) 

Also: All volumes of his Short stories 

Cobb 

1,2 

Tutt and Mr. Tutt (Who do justice in spite of 



the law) 

Train 

1 , 2,3 

Also: All stories dealing with these two 
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Detective of 



detectives) 

Also: All Sherlock Holmes stories 

Doyle 

1 , 2,3 

Uncle Abner (Quiet, till he springs his surprise) 

Post 

1,2 

Also: All stories by Post 

John Silence 

Blackwood 

1,2 

Also: Sequels 



Children and Their Ways 



The Madness of Philip 

Daskam 

1 , 2,3 

Little Aliens (Foreign children in school) 

Kelly 

1,2 

Also: Little Citizens, Wards of Liberty, etc 
The Court of Boyville (Stories about boys) 

W. A. White 

1,2 

A Few Others 



Princeton Stories 

Williams 


Wellesley Stories 

Cook 


Puck of Pook’s Hill (Magic glimpses of history) 

Kipling 

1 , 2,3 

Also: Rewards and Fairies (Magic glimpses 



of history) 



Motley (A group of sketches) 

Galsworthy 

4 

Hungry Hearts (The lives of immigrants) 

Yezierska 

3,4 

A Little Book of Profitable Tales 

E. Field 

2,3 

Also: Second Book, etc. 

Rab and His Friends (1/2) 

Brown 

1,2 

Philosophy 4 (and other stories) 

Wister 

3,4 

Marjorie Daw and Other Stories 

Aldrich 

1,2 

Men, Women, and Boats 

Crane 

2,3 


N. 


BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


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COLLECTIONS OF SHORT STORIES 
(May be read in years i, 2, 3) 


Modern Short Stories 

Ashmun 


The Short Story 

Atkinson 


Atlantic Narratives 

{Atlantic) 


American Short Stories 

Baldwin 


The World’s Greatest Stories 

Cody 


Short Stories of Various Types 

Freck 


The Best Short Stories 

French 


Types of the Short Story 

Heydrick 


Americans All 

Heydrick 


Great Modern American Stories 

Howells 


Representative American Short Stories 

Jessup 


Short Stories of the New America 

Lasalle 


Joy in Work 

Lasalle 


Modern Short Stories 

Law 


Short Stories for High Schools 

Mikels 


Short Stories 

Moulton 


The Best Short Stories (various years) 

O’Brien 


Great Modern English Stories 

O’Brien 


Short Stories of America 

Ramsey 


French Short Stories 

Schweikert 


Best Russian Short Stories 

Seltzer 


The Best Short Stories 

Sherman 


Book of Short Stories 

Williams 


Short Stories Old and New 

Smith 


The Best American Tales 

Trent 


The Best Humorous American Short Stories 

0 . Henry Prize Stories (For various years) 

Jessup 


(In each school, the teachers will recommend collections of stories dealing with 

their particular part of the country, such collections 
New York, etc.) 

PLAYS 

LONG PLAYS 
(Plays rich in poetry and noble character) 

as Stories of Ohio, 

Stories of 

Great Dramas of the Greeks 

Agamemnon (Translation by A. S. Way) 

Aeschylus 

4 x 

Alcestis (Translated by Gilbert Murray) 

Euripides 

4 

The Trojan Women (Translated by Murray) 

Euripides 

4 

Antigone (Translated by Murray) 

Sophocles 

4 

The Frogs (Translated by Murray) 

Aristophanes 

4 X 


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BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


Plays before Shakespeare 


Everyman (Ancient quaint morality play) 

(Anonymous) 

4X 

Dr. Faustus 

Marlowe 

4X 

Also: Tamburlaine (Part I) and The Jew of 

Malta (Recommended only in Merrill’s 
edition) 

Shakespeare’s Plays 

Henry V, Mid-Summer Night’s Dream 


I) 2,3 j 4 

As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Merchant of 

Venice, Winter’s Tale Richard II 


2 , 3,4 

Julius Caesar Macbeth. Richard III, Corio- 

lanus, Tempest 


3,4 

Othello. Hamlet, King Lear 


4 

Eighteenth-Century Comedies 

She Stoops to Conquer 

Goldsmith 

2 , 3,4 

The Rivals 

Sheridan 

2 , 3,4 

Poetical Plays, in the Manner of the Past 

The Foresters 

Tennyson 

4 

Pippa Passes 

Browning 

4 

Ulysses, Nero, Paola and Francesca 

S. Phillips 

3,4 

Sherwood 

A. Noyes 

4 

The House of Rimmon 

VanDyke 

3,4 

Peer Gynt (A poetic and allegorical drama) 

Ibsen 

4X 

Plays with an Atmosphere 

Beau Brummel (A tragical-comedy picture of a 

real figure) 

Fitch 

2,3 

Sweet Lavendar 

Pinero 

3,4 

Pomander Walk (Graceful and original) 

Parker 

3 

Prunella (Pretty and fantastic) 

Barker and Housman 3 

Historical Plays 

Jeanne D’Arc 

Mackaye 

2,3 

Washington, the Man Who Made Us 

Mackaye 

1 , 2,3 

Shenandoah 

Howard 

2,3 

Abraham Lincoln 

Drinkwater 

1 , 2,3 

Nathan Hale, Barbara Frietchie 

Fitch 

2,3 

The Devil’s Disciple 

Shaw 

2 , 3,4 

Disraeli 

Parker 

3,4 

If I Were King (Fanciful) 

McCarthy 

2,3 


BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


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Plays That Are Different 

The Yellow Jacket (After the Chinese plan) Hazleton 1^2,3 

Daughter of Heaven (A Chinese Romance) Loti and Gautier 3,4 

The Blue Bird (A dream of seeking happiness) Maeterlinck i>2,3 

Magic (Strange powers lurk about us) Chesterton 4 

The Scarecrow (Which comes to life) Mackaye 2,3 

The Piper (Based upon “The Pied Piper”) Peabody 2,3,4 

The Dragon (A kind of fairy tale) Gregory 1,2,3 

The Terrible Meek fWith underlying meaning) Kennedy 3,4 

Also: The Servant in the House (“What is 

wrong with life ? ”) 4 

The Passing of the Third Floor Back (Meaning 

much) Jerome 4 


(In the last three, be sure you get the underlying significance. Without this, it 
is a waste of time to read the play.) 


Modem Comedies of Life and Character 

The Importance of Being Earnest (Clever and 

brilliant) Wilde 3,4 

The Mollusc (Amusing study of an invertebrate 

lady) W. H. Davis 3,4 

The Climbers (Social Study) C. Fitch 4 

Mary Goes First (Social study) H. A. Jones 3,4 

Also: The Case of Rebellious Susan 

The Voysey Inheritance (A modem problem) G. Barker 4 

The Thunderbolt (Wkere a will upsets things) Pinero 3,4 

Quinney’s (Romance in an antique shop) Vachell 2,3 

Intimate Strangers (A study in American life) Tarkington 2,3,4 

Merely Mary Ann Zangwill 2,3 

The Great Adventure (Dramatic form of 

“Buried Alive”) A. Bennett 3,4 

The Famous Mrs. Fair Forbes 2,3 

He and She (Rivalry of husband and wife in 

profession) Crothers ' 3,4 

Plays that Study Life More Seriously 

As a Man Thinks (This writer’s strongest play) A. Thomas 4 

John Ferguson (Character facing misfortune) Ervine 4 

Also: Mixed Marriage (Catholic and Protes¬ 
tant in Ireland) 

The Mob (The man who stands up for what he 

believes) Galsworthy 4 

Loyalties (The cords that control man) Galsworthy 4 


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BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


Strife (Labor Problems) 

Galsworthy 

4 

Justice (Is legal justice just ?) 

Galsworthy 

4 

The Silver Box, The Pigeon (Two good plays) 

Galsworthy 

4 

Rutherford and Son 

Sowerby 

3,4 

The Return of Peter Grimm 

Belasco 

3 

Great Foreign Plays 

Faust, Part I (Taylor’s translation) 

Goethe 

4 

Tartuffe (Translated by Wormeley) 

Moliere 

4 

The Imaginary Invalid (Translated by Page) 

Moliere 


Cyrano de Bergerac (A modern poetic master- 

piece) 

Rostand 

4 

L’Aiglon (Dealing with Napoleon’s son) 

Rostand 

3,4 

The Princess Far-away 

Rostand 

3 

The Sunken Bell (A poetic German play) 

Hauptmann 

3,4 

Plays that You Must Think About 

An Enemy of the People (A study in civics) 

Ibsen 

4 

A Doll’s House (A study in married life) 

Ibsen 

4 

The Lady from the Sea (Adaptation to circum- 

stance) 

Ibsen 


Plays that Will Startle You and Puzzle You 

Candida (With problems of marriage) 

G. B. Shav» 

4 

Caesar and Cleopatra (How great is a great 

man ?) 

G. B. Shaw 

3,4 

The Man of Destiny (Another great man, seen 

intimately) 

G. B. Shaw 

4 

Arms and the Man (Introducing a sensible 

soldier) 

G. B. Shaw 

4 

Pygmalion (Making a “lady” of her) 

G. B. Shaw 

4 

You Never Can Tell (Entirely unusual) 

G. B. Shaw 

4 

Fannie’s First Play (Innocent but unconven- 

tional) 

G. B. Shaw 

4 


Plays of Life and Fancy 

The Truth about Blayds (Must truth come 
out ?) 

The Dover Road (How an elopement failed) 
Mr. Pirn Passes By (And mixes up everything) 
Also: Other plays in collected work 
Milestones (Grandfathers, and fathers, and 
sons) 

The Admirable Crichton (An amazing butler) 
Mary Rose (“Spooky” but pretty) 


Milne 4 

Milne 3,4 

Milne 3,4 


Bennet and Knoblauch 4 
Barrie 2,3,4 

Barrie 3,4 


BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


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What Every Woman Knows (Read and find 


out) 

Barrie 

3)4 

Deburau (An old actor’s pride) 

Guitry 

4 

The White-Headed Boy (Irish) 

Robinson 

2,3 

A Few More, Unclassified 



The Great Divide (Character and struggle) 

The Green Goddess (A sensational play, inter¬ 

W. V. Moody 

4 

esting) 

Archer 

1,2 

The Melting Pot (The problem of the immi¬ 



grant) 

Zangwill 

4 

The Fool (With an improving moral) 

Pollock 

2 , 3)4 

What the Public Wants 

Bennett 

4 

Trelawney of the “Wells” 

Pinero 

2 , 3)4 

The Locked Chest 

Masefield 

4 

Tradition (The old and the new) 

My Lady’s Dress (The tragedy behind its 

Middleton 

3)4 

making) 

Knoblauch 

2)3 

Beyond the Horizon (A dream unrealized) 

O’Neill 

3)4 

Gold 

O’Neill 


Irish Folk-History Plays (Vol. I, Tragedies) 

Gregory 

3)4 

Irish Folk-History Plays (Vol. II, Comedies) 

Gregory 

2 , 3)4 

Three Wonder-Plays 

Gregory 

2 ) 3)4 

(See also Collections, below) 



SHORT PLAYS 



(Some may be found in the Collections on another 

page, others will be found in 

the published collected works of the author.) 

The Bicyclers and Other Farces (Very light) 

Bangs 

1 ) 2,3 

The Mouse-Trap and Other Farces (Amusing) 

Howells 

2,3 

The Sleeping Car and the Parlor Car (Amusing) 

Howells 


Five Plays (Imaginative, poetic, and imcanny) 

Dunsany 

2 , 3)4 

Recommended: Gods of the Mountain; The 



Glittering Gate; The Golden 
Doom 



Plays of Gods and Men (Like the above) 

Dunsany 


Recommended: The Queen’s Enemies; The 



Laughter of the Gods; A Night 
at an Inn 



Collected Short Plays (In translated works) 

Maeterlinck 

3)4 


Recommended: The Intruder; The Blind; 

Death of Tintagiles; The Seven 
Princesses; Home 


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BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


Collected Short Plays (In the works of Yeats) 
Recommended: A Pot of Broth- Cathleen ni 
Houlihan; Land of Heart’s 
Desire; Hour-Glass 

Yeats 

3,4 

Collected Plays of Synge 

Recommended: Well of the Saints; Riders to the 
Sea; Deirdre of the Sorrows 

Synge 

3,4 

Seven Short Plays 

Recommended: Spreading the News; Rising of 

the Moon; Workhouse Ward; 
Hyacinth Halvey 

Gregory 

2,3,4 

Six Short Plays 

Recommended: The Little Dream; The Little 
Man; and others 

Galsworthy 

2,3,4 

Half Hours (Collected short plays) 

Barrie 

I, 2 , 3 ,4 

Echoes of the War 

Barrie 


The Beau of Bath and Other One-Act Plays 

C. Mackay 

1,2 

Plays of Pioneers 

C. Mackay 


Three Welsh Plays 

Peabody 

2,3 

Plays 

Glaspell 

2,3,4 


COLLECTIONS OF PLAYS 

(In these may be found many of the plays recommended above. Only those 
named after each collection are recommended.) 

Chiefly Longer Plays 

Modem American Plays . G. P. Baker 3,4 

Recommended: As a Man Thinks; Return of 
Peter Grimm; Romance; 

The Unchastened Woman; 

Plots and Playwrights 

Longer Plays by Modem AuthCx^ H. L. Cohen 2,3,4 

All recommended 

Chief Contemporary Dramatists (Some shorter 

plays) T. H. Dickinson 3,4 

Recommended: Strife; The Hour Glass; 

Riders to the Sea; The Ris¬ 
ing of the Moon; The Great 
Divide; The Witching Hour; 

The Scarecrow; Pelleas and 
Melisande 


BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


27 


Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series T. H. Dickinson 
Recommended: Milestones; Abraham Lin¬ 
coln ; Mixed Marriage; King 
Argimenes and the Unknown 
Warrior; The Piper; The 
Yellow Jacket; Cyrano de 
Bergerac 


3,4 


Representative American Plays 

Recommended: Shenandoah; Secret Service; 

Madame Butterfly; Her 
Great Match; The New York 
Idea; The Witching Hour; 
The Faith Healer; The 
Scarecrow; He and She 
Representative plays of American Dramatists 

A. H. Ouinn 

2,3,4 

(Volume III Only) 

Recommended: (Vol. Ill) Rip Van Winkle; 

Shenandoah; In Mizzoura; 
The Moth and the Flame; 
The New York Idea; The 
Return of Peter Grimm 

Short Plays, Usually One-Act 

Representative One-Act Plays by British and 

M. J. Moses 

2,3,4 

Irish Authors 

Clark 

2,3,'4 

One-Act Plays by Modem Authors 

(All recommended. Most are rather difficult 
for i) 

H. L. Cohen 

^,2,3,4 

The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays 
(All recommended) 

Representative One-Act Plays by American 

S. A. Leonard 

3,4 

Authors 

(All recommended) 

M. A. Mayorga 

2,3,4 

Contemporary One-Act Plays 
(All recommended) 

B. R. Lewis 

3,4 

Wisconsin Plays (Volume I only) 

Recommended: Volume I 

Dickinson 

3,4 

Portmanteau Plays 

Walker 

1, 2 ,3,4 

Plays for Classroom Interpretation 

Little Theatre Classics (Adapted from stand¬ 

Knickerbocker 

1 , 2,3 

ard plays) 

S. A. Eliot 

2,3,4 

Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 

Shay and Loving 

3,4 


(Some too 
above.) 


difficult. Select those named 


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BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


POEMS 

Individual poems and volumes of poems by one poet are not listed unless 
the author is of marked importance, or is particularly fitted for school reading. 
For selected poems of most authors, see the Collections. The reading of a large 
part of the poems in any good collection will count as the reading of a book. 
Of course the teacher, in allowing credit, will consider whether the poetry 
consists of light stories in easy verse or of poetry that calls for thought and 
imagination. 

INDIVIDUAL POEMS 


The World’s Greatest Poems—All Should Know Them 

The Iliad (Omitting Books ii, 13, 15, 17, 21) Homer i,2,3,4 

(Translation of Bryant, Lang, or Chapman) (4) 

The Odyssey (Omitting Books i through 5, 15, 

and 16) Homer 1,2,3,4 

(Translation by Palmer, Butcher and Lang, 
or Bryant) 

The Aeneid (First three books only if desired) Virgil 3,4 

(Translation by Connington Williams, or 
Long, or Cranch for Books 1-3.) 

The Song of Roland (A stirring French epic) (Anon.) 1,2,3 

(Translation by Butler) 

The Divine Comedy (Hell, or Inferno, and 

Purgatory) (Any one part) Dante 4x 

(Translation by Cary or by Longfellow) 

The Rubaiyat (Pessimistic but noble Persian 

poem) Omar Khayyam 4 

(Translation by Fitzgerald. See Vedder’s 
illustrations.) 

Sicilian Idyls (Poems of idealized shepherd life) Theocritus 4X 


(Translation by Calverley, or Lang) 

Great English Poems of Past Days 

The Canterbury Tales (Use a simplified text if 


possible) Chaucer 3,4 

(Read in these the Prologue, the Knight’s Tale, 
and the Nun’s Priest’s Tale.) 

The Faerie Queene (Two or three books) Spenser 3,4 

(Not at all hard reading) 

Paradise Lost (At least Books i and 2) Milton 3,4 

L’Allegro, II Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas Milton 4 

The Rape of the Lock (Not great poetry, but 

brilliant) Pope 2,3,4 

The Deserted Village and The Traveller Goldsmith 2,3 


BOOKS FOR HOME READING 29 

Interesting Stories Told Simpiy 

The Prisoner of Chillon Byron 1,2,3 

Mazeppa (The story of a wild ride) Byron 1,2,3 

Marmion (A Scottish tale of the days of 

chivalry) Scott i, 2 

The Lady of the Lake (Highlanders and Low- 

landers) Scott 1,2 

The Lay of the Last Minstrel (Mystery and 

magic) Scott i, 2 

Sohrab and Rustum (A fight of father and son) Arnold 2,3 

Tales of a Wayside Inn (Good stories in verse) Longfellow i, 2 

The Golden Legend (A medieval tale) Longfellow 1,2,3 

Lays of Ancient Rome (With action and spirit) Macaulay i, 2 

Spell of the Yukon (Direct and readable) Service i 

Rhymes of a Red Cross Man (War stories, as 

above) Service 1 

Snowbound (The story of a snowstorm) Whittier i 

Stories Less Simple but That Most Readers Like 

The Princess (A story of women’s rights) Tennyson 2,3,4 

The Life and Death of Jason (A long story, well 

told) W. Morris 3,4 

The Prince’s Progress (A sad little romance) 

(1/2) C. Rossetti 3 

tjoblin Market (Two sisters and some goblins) 

(1/2) C. Rossetti 3 

Sigurd the Volsung (The story of Wagner’s 

Siegfried) W. Morris 3,4 

The Earthly Paradise (A group of stories. 

You need not read them all, but select a 

few) W. Morris 3,4 

King Cole (Unlikely but pretty) Masefield 2,3,4 

Story of a Round House (Also called Dauber 

A sea story) Masefield 2,3,4 

Reynard the Fox (A fox-hunt and what happens 

to the fox) Masefield 

Right Royal (A horse is the hero) Masefield 

Tales of the Mermaid Tavern (Select those you 

like) Noyes 3,4 

Enoch Arden (A story of shipwreck and self- 

restraint) (1/2) Tennyson 2,3 

Idylls of the King (Stories of King Arthur and 

his Knights) Tennyson 3,4 


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BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


The Vision of Sir Launfal (A medieval moral 


tale) (1/2) 

Lowell 

1,2 

Volumes of Readable Short Poems 

A Child’s Garden of Verse 

Stevenson 

I 

Ballads (Scottish and South Sea subjects) 

Stevenson 

1,2 

Seven Seas (Of many sorts, all interesting) 

Kipling 

2 , 3,4 

Five Nations (Similar) 

Kipling 

2 , 3,4 

Barrack-Room Ballads (The army in India and 
that sort of thing) 

Kipling 


Bab Ballads (Amusing, by the author of Pina¬ 
fore) 

Gilbert 

2,3 

Sailor Town (All sorts of sea songs and poems) 

C. F. Smith 

1,2,3 

Small Craft (Like the above) 

C. F. Smith 


Songs of a Workaday World (Live human 
subjects) 

B. Braley 

1,2 

The Ingoldsby Legends (Amusing, extravagant) 

Barham 

2,3 

Poems for the More Poetical 

Childe Harold (Byron travels and meditates 
in verse) 

Byron 

3,4 

Selected Short Poems (Any school edition) 

Browning 

2 , 3,4 

Atalanta in Calydon (Imitating a Greek play) 

Swinburne 

3,4 

North of Boston (New England poems) 

Frost 

3,4 

Prometheus Unbound (especially the last part) 

Shelley 

4 X 

Lamia (A poem of the supernatural) 

Keats 

4 

Endymion (Parts only) 

Keats 

4 X 


COLLECTIONS 

General Suggestion 
(See also the note on page 28) 

In studying poetry in collections, be sure not to miss the following poems. 
They are not only important in themselves, but are significant in the develop¬ 
ment of English poetry. (Some titles are slightly abridged.) 

Any one of the following groups may be read as one unit. 


Sonnets (Many in the Golden Treasury) 

Elegy in a Country Churchyard 
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 
Also: Kubla Khan and Christabel 
Ode on Intimations of Immortality 
Also: The Highland Reaper; Daffodils; 
Ode to Duty; Poole Castle; Tintern 
Abbey; Lucy Gray; Sonnets 


Shakespeare 

Gray 

Coleridge 

Wordsworth 


3,4 
2 , 3,4 
1,2,3,4 


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BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


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3 A 


Eve of St. Agnes . Keats 

Also: Ode to a Grecian Urn; Autumn; 

Chapman’s Homer; La Belle Dame 

Adonais (Lament for Keats) Shelley 4 

Also: Skylark; Night; Cloud; West Wind; 

Sensitive Plant 

The Cotter’s Saturday Night Burns 3,4 

Also: Daisy; Mouse; Mailie; Twa Dogs; 

Tam O’Shanter; Selected songs 2,3,4 

In collections of the work of modern poets, look for representative poems 
by the following: Tennyson, Browning, Mrs. Browning, the Rossettis, Swin¬ 
burne. Morris, M, Arnold, Longfellow Whittier, Bryant, J. R. Lowell. Holmes, 
Poe, Whitman, Lanier, Riley, Kipling, Noyes, Masefield, Newbolt, Brooks, 
Chesterton, Gibson, Letts, De la Mare, Frost, Robinson, Aiken, Millay, Kilmer, 
Markham, Lindsay, A. Lowell, Sandburg. 


List of Collections 


The Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics 

Palgrave 

I, 2,3,4 

Second Series (Later nineteenth century 
poems) 

The Oxford Book of Verse (A rich collection) 

Couch 

1, 2,3,4 

The Blue Poetry Book 

Lang 

1,2 

Standard English Verse (With many “classics”) 

Pancoast 

3 A 

Lyra Heroica (Poems of courage and action) 

Henley 

1,2 

High Tide 

Richards 

1,2 

Narrative and Lyric Poems 

Seward 

1,2,3 

One Hundred Narrative Poems 

Trent 

1,2,3 

Twelve Centuries of Prose and Verse (A big 

volume) 

Newcomer 

3,4 

British Poems (From Chaucer to the Reces- 

sional) 

Hutchison 

2 , 3,4 

American Poems 

Scudder 

1,2 

Little Book of American Poets 

Rittenhouse 

1,2,3 

The Chief American Poets 

Page 

1,2,3 

Selections from American Poetry 

Law 

1,2,3 

An American Anthology (A large volume) 

Stedman 

3,4 

A Victorian Anthology (A large volume) 

Stedman 

3,4 

English Poets (A large collection in five vol¬ 
umes very valuable for advanced students 
who wish to see the best selected poems 
from many poets. One credit for any 

hundred pages) 

Ward 

4 X 

Modern Verse (Recent verse only) 

Forbes 

3,4 

The Little Book of Modem Verse 

Rittenhouse 

2 , 3,4 


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BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


Second Book of Modem Verse 

Modem British Poems 

Rittenhouse 

Untermeyer 

3,4 

Modern American Poems 

Modem British and American Poems 

The New Poetry (With much of the latest sort) 

Untermeyer 

Untermeyer 

Monroe and Henderson 4 

New Voices (Modern poets) 

Wilkinson 

3,4 

The Ballad Book (An excellent collection) 

Allingham 

I,2,3,4 

Ballads (Finely illustrated) 

Edwards 

I,2,3,4 

Legendary Ballads (Finely illustrated) 

Sedgwick 

I,2,3,4 

English and Scotch Popular Ballads 

Withan 

1,2,3 

Popular English Ballads 

Hart 

1,2,3 

A Ballad Book 

K. Bates 

^,2,3,4 

A Book of English Ballads 

Mabie 

I , 2,3 , 4 

Old English Ballads 

Gummere 

3,4 

The Best Ballads 

Bryant 

1,2,3,4 

Nonsense Anthology (To relieve the strain of 

study) 

Wells 

1,2,3 

Parody Anthology 

Wells 

1,2,3 

ESSAYS AND OTHER NON-FICTION 


Chatty Comment on Life 

Among Friends 

Crothers 

3,4 

Also: By the Christmas Tree; The Gentle 

Reader; In the Hands of a Receiver; 

Humanly Speaking; A Pardoner’s 

Wallet; and others 

From Pillar to Post (Very light essays) 

Bangs 

2,3 

Walking-Stick Papers 

Holliday 

3,4 

Also: Men, Books, and Cities 

The Margins of Hesitation 

Colby 

3,4 

In a New Century 

Martin 

3,4 

Friendship 

Black 

3,4 

Not that It Matters 

Milne 

3,4 

Old Lamps for New 

Lucas 

2,3 

Also: A Little of Everything 

Hints to Pilgrims 

Brooks 

2,3,4 

Also: There’s Pippins and Cheese to Come 

Brooks 

2,3,4 

On Nothing 

Belloc 

3,4 

Also: On Something; and other volumes 

Upon the Important Art of Living 

A Message to Garcia (Doing one’s job right) 

(1/4) 

E. Hubbard 

I 


I 


BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


33 


The Human Machine 

A. Bennett 

2 , 3>4 

Also: How To Live on Twenty-Four Hours a 
Day 

The Strenuous Life (By one who lived it) 

Roosevelt 

2,3 

Durable Satisfactions of Life (By one who 
found them) 

Eliot 

2 , 3,4 

The Efficient Life 

Gulick 

2 , 3,4 

The Simple Life (Plain living and high thinking) 

Wagner 

2,3 

Acres of Diamonds, and Other Essays 

Conwell 

2,3 

The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent 

Erskine 

3,4 

Adventure of Life 

Grenfell 

2 , 3,4 

What Men Live By 

Cabot 

3,4 

The Student in Arms (When one turns to 
religion) 

Hankey 

3,4 

You are the Hope of the World 

Hagedorn 

3,4 

Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to 
Students on Some of Life’s Ideals (Inspir¬ 
ing and helpful) 

W. James 

3,4 

Roosevelt’s Writings (edited by Fulton, 
Pocket ed.) 

Roosevelt 

2 , 3,4 

American Ideals and other Essays 

Roosevelt 

2 , 3,4 

Life Seen from Strange Angles 

The Indian of Today 

Eastman 

3,4 

Also: The Soul of an Indian 


3,4 

The Soul of the Black Folk 

DuBois 

4 

The World I Live In (How life looks to the 
blind) 

Keller 

3,4 

Also: Optimism 
(See also under Biography) 

Playful and Surprising Essays 

Essays and Literary Studies 

Leacock 

3,4 

Also: Frenzied Fiction 

Shandygaff (Sparkling and effervescent) 

C. Morley 

3,4 

Also: Pipefuls (Of excellent mixture); Mince 
Pie; and others 

Handy Guide for Beggars 

Lindsay 

3,4 

Tremendous Trifles (Turning things upside 
down) 

Chesterton 

3,4 

Also: Uses of Adversity; What’s Wrong 
with the World; Defense of Nonsense; 
Varied Types; and others 

Belshazzar Court (Reflections upon city life) 

Strunsky 

3,4 


Also: The Patient Observer 


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BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


Romance of the Commonplace G. Burgess 3,4 

Mr. Dooley in the Hearts of his Countrymen Dunne i, 2 

Also other books of the Dooley series 

Thoughtful Essays 

Great Possessions Grayson 3,4 

Also: Adventures in Friendship; The 
Friendly Road 

Books and Culture H. Mabie 3,4 

Also: My Study Fire; Works and Days; 
and others 

Days Out and Other Papers Woodbridge 3,4 

Among My Books Lowell 3,4 

Also: My Study Windows 

Good Reading, and Good Advice 

A Christmas Sermon Stevenson 3,4 

Also: Virginibus Puerisque (Including Aes 

Triplex) 3,4 

Fables (Not strictly essays; too hard 

for most) 4x 

Things That Have Interested Me A. Bennett 3,4 

Self-Cultivation in English Palmer 2,3,4 

What Can Literature Do for Me ? Smith 2,3,4 

Talks on the Study of Literature A. Bates 3,4 

Also: Talks on Writing English (Very helpful) 

The Anatomy of Poetry (Telling how to like it) Ellis 4x 

Sesame and Lilies (Advice to young people) Ruskin 3,4 

Great Essays of the Past | 

Bacon’s Essays (Read at least four) Bacon 3,4 

Suggested: Travel, Study; Office; Gardens; 

Friendship 

Essays of Elia (At least five) Lamb 3,4 

More Essays of Elia Lamb 

The Sketch-Book (Including some short stories) Irving 2 ,3 

The English Mail Coach and Other Essays DeQuincey 3,4 

Also: The Flight of a Tartar Tribe (Partly 
history) 

The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (Amusing) Holmes 3,4 

Also: The Professor at the Breakfast Table 
Essays (Upon history, literature, and phi¬ 
losophy. Any two) Carlyle 4X 

Also: Heroes and Hero-Worship (Or portions 
of Sartor Resartus) 


BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


35 


Selected Essays from The Spectator and The 


Tatler 

Addison and Steele 

3,4 

The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers (From the 
same) 

Addison and Steele 


Emerson’s Essays (At least four) 

Emerson 

4 

Suggested: Self-Reliance; Friendship; Com¬ 
pensation; Manners; Books; 
Heroism; Character 



Macaulay’s Essays (Solid reading, but not 
hard) 

Macaulay 

3,4 

Suggested: Warren Hastings; Johnson; 
Clive; Addison 

Modem Painters (Selections, wonderful de¬ 
scription) 

Ruskin 

4 x 

Also: Queen of the Air (Beautiful descrip- 



tion) 

Selections from the Writings of Newman 

Newman 

4 

Collections of Representative Essays 

Atlantic Classics (First and Second Series) 


3,4 

Essays and Essay Writing 

Tanner 

3,4 

Modem Essays (Very well selected) 

Morley 

‘, 3,4 

Essays, English and American 

Alden 

3,4 

Riverside Essays 


3,4 

Selected Essays 

Fuess 

3,4 

English Essays 

Bronson 

3,4 

A Selection from the Best English Essays 

Cody 

3,4 

A Collection of Essays (Standard) 

Fuess 

3,4 

INTERESTING NON-FICTION 


Out-of-Doors and All That 

Days Out of Doors 

Abbott 

I 

Camp Life in the Woods 

Gibson 

I 

The Flock (Keeping sheep in wild places) 

Austin 

1,2 

Training Wild Animals (By one who has done it) 

Bostock 

1,2 

Trapping Wild Animals (In Malay country) 

Mayer 

I 

Wild Brother 

Underwood 

I 

Wild Animals I Have Known 

Seton 

I 

Also: Wild Animal Ways 

Jungle Peace (By a writer you will like) 

Beebe 

1 , 2,3 

Also: The Edge of the Jungle 

The Story of Matka (Life of a Seal) 

Jordan 

I 



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BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


The Life of a Tiger Eardley-Wilmot i 

The Grizzly Mills i 

The Bee (As interesting as "real folks ’0 Maeterlinck 3,4 

The Insect World Holden i 

Also: The Family of the Sun 

Social Life of the Insect World (Interesting) Fabre i 

Also: (Interesting as fiction) Insect Adven¬ 
tures; Hunting Wasps; The Mason 
Bees; Spiders; and other books 

The Story of a Thousand Year Pine Mills i 

The Face of the Fields Sharp 2,3 

Also: The Fall of the Year; A Watcher in 
the Woods; and others 

Kindred of the Wild (Animal studies and Roberts 1,2 

stories) 

Also: Watchers of the Trail; Haunters of 
the Silences; Heart of the Ancient 
Wood; and others 

Wild Life of Orchard or Field Ingersoll i 

Wake Robin (Notes of a nature-lover) Burroughs 2,3,4 

Also: Locusts and Wild Honey; Fresh 
Fields; Riverby; Pepacton; and 
many others (All recommended) 

The Book of a Naturalist Hudson 2,3 

Also: A Shepherd’s Life (See his other work 
under Fiction and Travel) 

Cape Cod (By a tramping philosopher) Thoreau 2,3,4 

Also: Walden; The Main Woods; and others 
Fisherman’s Luck Van Dyke 2,3 

Also: Open Sea; Little Rivers; Campfires 
and Guide Posts and others 
In the Wilderness (Thought and humor, with 

incident) C. D. Warner 2,3,4 

Also: Backlog Studies; Hunting of the 
Deer; My Summer in a Garden; and 
others 

The Forest (By a writer of adventure stories) S. E. White i, 2 

Endicott and I Warner 2,3 

The Story of Opal (A child’s strange journal) Whitely 2,3 

The Ocean and Its Mysteries Verrill 1)2,3 

The Cradle of the Deep Treves i, 2 

The Mirror of the Seas (Poetic, meditative) Conrad 3,4 


BOOKS FOR HOME READING 37 

Advice That May Help You 

The Freshman and His College Lockwood 2,3 

College Girls Briggs 2,3,4 

Also: College Life 

The College Course and Preparation for Life Fitch 2,3 

Why Go to College Palmer 2,3 

Also: Trades and Occupations 

Choosing a Career Harden 1,2,3 

Vocations for Girls Weaver 1,2,3 

Letters to Young Men Canfield 2,3 

Old Gorgon Graham (Letters advising a son) Lorimer 1,2,3 

The Worker and His Work Center 2,3 

The Subject May Interest You 

Essays on Art Brock 4 

The Works of Man (Architecture) Phillipps 4 

How to Judge a Picture Van Dyke 2,3 

Also: The Meaning of Pictures 

Musicians of Today RoUand 4 

How to Listen to Music Krehbiel 4 

Studies in Stagecraft (Helpful to play-writers) Hamilton 3,4 

(Other works by the same) 

On the Art of Acting Irving 3,4 

Creative Chemistry Slosson 3 

The Conservation of Energy Stewart 3 

Autobiography and Selected Essays Huxley 2,3 

As Others See Us (Americans in foreign eyes) Brooks 3,4 

How the Other Half Lives (Do you know?) Riis 3,4 

The Valley of Democracy (Spirit of the Middle 

West) Nicholson 3,4 

Hindrances to Good Citizenship Bryce 3,4 

The American Mind and American Idealism Perry 4 

Changing America (Modem American prob¬ 
lems) Ross ' 4 

Also: Sin and Society (The wrongs men do in 
groups) 

The Heritage of Tyre (American shipping) Meloney i, 2 

Ships and Sailors of Old Salem Paine i 

Yankee Ships and Sailors Barnes i 

Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coast Stockton i, 2 

Heroes of the Storm (Life-saving service) O’Connor i, 2 

The Smoke-Eaters (Fire-fighters) O’Higgins i 

Indians of Today Grinnell i, 2 


38 BOOKS FOR HOME READING 

History You Should Read 


The Winning of the West (How we got it) 

The Conquest of Mexico (Like a historical 

Roosevelt 

2 , 3,4 

novel) 

Also: The Conquest of Peru (Just as inter¬ 
esting) 

Prescott 

2 ,3 > 4 

Father Marquette (Priest and explorer) 
Montcalm and Wolfe (French and Indian 

Thwaites 

2 , 3,4 

Wars) 

Parkman 

2 , 3>4 

The Story of Mankind (A wonderful book) 

Van Loon 

I,2,3 ,4 

The French Revolution (Volume I. Hard) 

Carlyle 

4 X 

A Short History of the World 

Wells 

4 x 


TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE 

The books below arj not mere guide-books. All are interesting, written 
not to be consulted, but to be read. Many are finely illustrated. Most 
contain lively accounts of personal experiences, often exciting. There are 
many other excellent books of travel that your teachers or the librarian will 
recommend and approve. For other stories of Adventure see Biography, 


and the works on Out-of-Doors (under Essays). 

How They Did It—Men Who Have Made Records 
Sailing Alone Around the World (In a httle 

sloop) Slocum I} 2,3 

The Track of the Typhoon (A small yacht 

crosses the Atlantic) Nutting i, 2 

The Cruise of the Hippocampus (In a small 

yawl, to Panama) Loomis i, 2 

The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) (A 

long accoimt) Stuck 1,2,3 

The North Pole (By the First Man to Find It) Peary 1,2,3 

The South Pole (By the First Man to Find It) Amundsen 1,2,3 

Alone in the-Caribbean (A single-handed cruise) Fenger i, 2 

First Through the Grand Canyon (A perilous 

trip) Powell i, 2 

In the Forbidden Land (The Tibetans nearly 

killed him) Landor 1,2,3 

Also: Tibet and Nepal (But he went there 
again) 

Trans-Himalaya (Long, but you can skip parts) Sven Hedin 1,2,3 

Wandering About and Seeing Things 

An Amateur Emigrant (Going steerage and 

all that) Stevenson 2,3 


BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


39 


With Poor Emigrants to America (Discour¬ 
aged too easily) Graham 2,3 

Letters of Travel (From all over everywhere) Kipling 2,3 

Voyage in the Sunbeam (A famous world- 

voyage) Brassey . 2,3 

The Innocents Abroad (A queer lot go touring) Clemens (Twain) 1,2,3 

The Dingbat of Arcady (Offhand travel and 

fun) Wilkinson 2,3 

Views Afoot (By a poetic open-air tramper) Taylor 1,2,3 

From Job to Job Around the World Fletcher 1,2 

A Vagabond Journey Around the World H. A. Franck 1,2 

Working My Way Around the World L. M. Franck 1,2 

The British Isles and the Continent 


(There are many valuable books of travel not listed here, some beautifullv illus¬ 
trated. Ask the librarian to point them out to you. In the first year any good work 
of travel will be credited. 


England and the English from an American 
Point of View (Rather a ‘‘grown-up” 


book) 

P. Collier 

4 

By Oak and Thorn (Literary Essays about 
England) 

A. Brown 

3,4 

Our English Cousins (Lively, amusing, not 
up to date) 

R. H. Davis 

1,2 

Afoot in England 

W. H. Hudson 

3,4 

My Irish Year (Delightful Irish travel) 

P. Colum 

1,2,3 

Home Fires in France (A sympathetic Ameri¬ 
can view) 

Fisher (Canfield) 

2,3 

Travels with a Donkey (in France) (Not a 
light book) 

Stevenson 

3,4 

Also: An Inland Voyage (Canoe instead of 
donkey) 



Home Life in Germany 

Sidgwick 

3 

Four Months Afoot in Spain (By a world tramp) 

Franck 

1,2 

Alaska and the Polar Regions 

In the Alaska Wilderness 

G. B. Gordon 

1,2,3 

Alaska Days with John Muir 

Young 

1,2,3 

The Land of Tomorrow (Alaska) 

W. B. Stephenson, Jr. 

T ^ n 

Waiting in the Wilderness 

E. A. MHls 

1,2 

Wilderness (A fascinating book) 

R. Kent 

1,2,3 

Travels in Alaska 

J. Muir 

1,2,3 

My Life with the Eskimo 

Stefansson 

2,3 


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BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sledge 

Stuck 

2,3 

My Arctic Journal 

Peary 

2,3 

Voyages of Captain Scott 

Turley 

1 , 2,3 

New Rivers of the North 

Fortner 

2,3 

A Tenderfoot with Peary 

Borup 

1 , 2,3 

A Voyage to the Arctic in the Whaler Aurora 

Lindsay 

1 , 2,3 

Land of the Lingering Snow 

Balles 

1 , 2,3 

The Friendly Arctic 

Stefansson 

1 , 2,3 

Hero Tales of the Far North 

Palms and Lagoons and Cannibals 

The Cruise of the Snark (An amateur expedi¬ 

Riis 

1,2 

tion) 

J. London 

1 , 2,3 

The Log of the Snark (His wife’s account of it) 

C. London 

1 , 2,3 

Hawaii (Interestingly presented) 

Gerould 

1 , 2,3 

In the Track of the Trades 

Freeman 

1 , 2,3 

The Isle of Vanishing Men (Excellent reading) 

Alder 

1,2 

Typee (They kept him, but not to eat) 

Also: Omoo (Somewhat similar) 

Melville 

1 , 2,3 

The Cruise of the Corwin 

Muir 

1 , 2,3 

White Shadows in the South Seas 

Also: Mystic Isles of the South Seas (All 
sorts of things) 

F. O’Brien 

2,3 

In Interesting Places 

The Backgrounds of Literature 

Mabie 

2,3 

Viva Mexico 

Flandrau 

2,3 

A White Umbrella in Mexico 

F. H. Smith 

1 , 2,3 

Here, There, and Everywhere 

Hamilton 

2,3 

In Eastern Wonderlands 

Gibson 

2,3 

In Our Unknown Southwest 

Laut 

1 , 2,3 

Trail Makers of the Northwest 

Haworth 

1 , 2,3 

Personal Experiences 

A Woman in the Wilderness (Central America) 

W. James 

1 , 2,3 

A Woman Tenderfoot 

Seton 

1 , 2,3 

Black Sheep (A Missionary in Africa) 

J. MacKenzie 

2 , 3,4 

Le Petit Nord (A Missionary in Labrador) 

Grenfell 

1,2 

Letters of a Woman Homesteader 

Unofficial Letters of an Official’s Wife (Philip¬ 

Stewart 

2,3 

pines) 

More Ocean Adventure 

(See also under Fiction) 

Moses 

2,3 

Two Years before the Mast 

Dana 

1,2 

A Year with a Whaler 

W. N. Bums 

1,2 


BOOKS FOR HOME READING 

41 

Lost Ships and Lonely Seas 

Paine 

1,2 

Whale Hunting with Gun and Camera 

Andrews 

1,2 

The Real Story of the Whaler 

A. VerrUl 

1,2 

Seeing America 

Florida Enchantments (Fishing, hunting, etc.) 

Dimock 

1,2 

Our Southern Highlanders (and how they live) 

Kephart 

3,4 

A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf 

Muir 

1,2,3 

Baddeck and that Sort of Thing (Down East) 

Warner 

1,2 

Some Strange Comers of Our Country 

Lummis 

2,3 

Labrador and Other Cold Places 

Labrador Days 

Grenfell 

1,2,3 

Also: Labrador; The Country and the 

People; Adrift on an Ice-Pan 

Lure of the Labrador Wild 

Wallace 

1,2 

1,2,3 

Dr. Grenfell’s Parish (See also Fiction) 

Duncan 

1,2,3 

The Land of the Long Night (Lapland) 

DuChaillu 

1,2 

The Orient 

Going Down to Jemsalem 

Duncan 

1,2,3 

The Land of Veiled Women 

Fraser 

2,3 

The Gateway to Sahara 

Furlong 

2,3 

The Near East (Beautifully illustrated) 

Hichens 

2 , 3,4 

Also: Egypt and Its Monuments (Similar) 

My Winter on the Nile 

Warner 

2 , 3,4 

The Caribbean and Farther South 

Gardens of the Caribbees 

Stowe 

1,2 

Roaming Through the West Indies 

Franck 

1,2 

Also: Zone Policeman 88 (Making the 

Panama Canal) 

Panama, Past and Present (A very interesting 

book) 

Verrill 

1 , 2,3 

Across the Andes 

C. J. Post 

1,2,3 

Across South Unknown America (By a famous 

traveler) 

Landor 

2,3 

The Flowing Road (Travel by river) 

C. Whitney 

1,2,3 

The Sea and the Jungle (Exploration) 

Tomlinson 

1,2,3 

Through the Brazilian Wilderness (A noted trip) 

Roosevelt 

2,3 

Adventures of a Tropical Tramp 

Foster 

1,2 

South America (In general. Illustrated) 

Koebel 

1,2,3 

China and Its Ways, also Japan 

The Spell of China 

BeU 

2,3 

Letters from China and Japan 

Dewey 

2 , 3,4 


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BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


Two Years in the Forbidden City (Good detail) Der Ling White 1,2,3 
China the Mysterious and Marvellous Murdock 2,3 

A Wayfarer in China Kendall 2,3 

The Changing Chinese (A study) Ross 3,4 

Japan Day by Day E. S. Morse 2,3 

Over Japan Way Hitchcock 2,3 

Japan, a Record in Color (The artistic side) 

(Beautifully illustrated) Menpes 2,3,4 

Out of the East (A friendly study) Hearn 4 

Africa, Elephants, and Hippopotami 

The Land of Footprints S. E. White i, 2 

Also: African Camp Fires 

African Game Trails Roosevelt 1,2,3 

In African Forest and Jungle Du Chaillu i, 2 

How I Found Livingston Stanley i, 2 

The Man-Eaters of Tsavo (Lions, by a lion- 

killer) - Patterson i, 2 

In the Wild West 

Boots and Saddles (Old Indian days) Custer i, 2 

The Cowboy (What he really was like) Rollins 3,4 

Hunting Trips of a Ranchman Roosevelt 1,2,3 

Also: Ranch Life and Hunting Trails; A 
Wilderness Hunter; and others 
Roosevelt in the Bad Lands (By one who was 

with him) Hagedorn 1,2,3 

The Oregon Trail (A Harvard Man tries 

Indian life) Parkman 2,3 

The Mountains (By one who knows them) S. E. White i, 2 

Also: The Pass; and The Cabin 
My First Summer in the Sierras (You know 

who he is) Muir 1,2,3' 

Tenting Tonight (By the author of “Tish”) Rinehart 1,2 

Also: Through the Glacier National Park 
Romance of the Colorado River Dellenbaugh 1,2,3 

Campfires in the Canadian Rockies Homaday i, 2 

The Old Santa Fe Trail Inman 1,2 

Tramping with a Poet (Lindsay) in the Rockies Graham 2,3 

American Big Game Hunting Roosevelt and Grinnell i, 2 

Also: Trails and Campfires; and others 

Also Worth Hearing About 

The Land of Pluck Dodge 2,3 

Spain and the Spaniards (Delightful description) DeAmicis 2,3 


BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


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Gondola Days (Venice) F. H. Smith 2 

In Far New Guinea (Decidedly wild life. 

Entertaining) Newton i > 2,3 

India (Beautifully illustrated) Menpes 2,3,4 

BIOGRAPHY 

In addition to those listed below, lives of men and women prominent in 
literature or in political life will be found in two series (full sets in most libraries): 
the English (and American) “Men of Letters” Series, and the English (and 
American) “Statesmen” Series. All books in these will be credited in the 
second and third years, and most (with the teacher’s approval, in the fourth). 


Recollections of Unusual Lives 


My Reminiscences (Entertaining and unusual) 

Pumpelly 

2,3 

Far Away and Long Ago (Exciting and original) 

W. H Hudson 

2 , 3>4 

Bright Roads of Adventure (“A regular 

feller”) 

R. D. Paine 

1,2,3 

Confessions of a Macedonian Bandit 

Sonnischen 

1,2,3 

Tramping with Tramps 

Willard (Flynt) 

2,3 

Autobiography of a Super-Tramp 

Davies 

1,2 

In Public Life 

Theodore Roosevelt, an Autobiography 

Roosevelt 

2,3 

Autobiography (A famous one) 

Franklin 

1,2 

Forty Years of It 

Whitlock 

2,3 

Autobiography (Introducing recent history) 

Schurz 

2,3 

My Life and Work 

Ford (and others) 

2,3 

How They Became Americans 

• 


From Alien to Citizen Qewish) 

Steiner 

3,4 

Out of the Shadow (Jewish) 

Rose Cohen 

1,2,3 

The Promised Land (Jewish) 

Mary Antin 

2,3 

The Americanization of Edward Bok (Dutch) 

E. Bok 

2 , 3,4 

The Soul of an Immigrant 

Panunzio 

3,4 

My Mother and I 

Craik 

2,3 

The Life of the Indian 

From the Deep Woods to Civilization 

Eastman 

1,2,3 

Also: Indian Boyhood 


1,2 

My Life as an Indian 

Schultz 

1,2 

How Life Looks from the Stage 

Autobiography (Covering many years) 

Joseph Jefferson 

2,3 

Stage Reminiscences 

Gilbert 

2,3 

Autobiography of a Clown 

Marcosson 

2,3 


44 


BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


The Print of My Remembrance (A remark- 


able book) 

Thomas 

2 , 3,4 

The Melancholy Tale of Me 

Sothern 

2,3 

Life on the Stage (By a great actress) 

C. Morris 

2,3 

Memories of My Life (Earlier years) 

Lives of Courage and Triumph 

Bernhardt 

2,3 

Up from Slavery 

Booker Washington 

2,3 

Story of a Pioneer (A woman who wasn’t afraid) 

A. Shaw 

2,3 

Twenty Years at Hull House (A noble mission) 

J. Addams 

2 , 3,4 

The Story of My Life (You know who she is) 

Recollections 

Helen Keller 

2,3 

In our Convent Days (Girls especially) 

Repplier 

2 , 3,4 

A Son of the Middle Border 

Also: A Daughter of the Middle Border 

Garland 

2,3 

A New England Boyhood 

Hale 

1 , 2,3 

The One I Knew Best of All (Girls especially) 
The Story (or Romance) of a Child (Fascinat¬ 

Burnett 

2,3 

ing) 

Also: The Book of Pity and of Death (His 
pets) 

Loti 

2 , 3,4 

Autobiography of a Tomboy 

Gilder 

2,3 

Memories 

Also: Stories of a Bor 

Galsworthy 

3,4 

A Boy’s Town 

Howells 

2 , 3,4 

A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs 

Hutton 

2,3 

When I Was a Boy in Russia 

The Old Virginia Gentleman (And other 

Mokrievich 

1,2 

memories) 

Bagby 

2,3 

A Labrador Doctor 

Some Impressions of My Elders (English liter¬ 

Grenfell 

1 ,2,3 

ary men) 

More Recollections 

Ervine 

4 

When I Was a Girl in Italy 

Ambrosi 

1 , 2,3 

Child of the Orient 

Vaka 

1 , 2,3 

A New England Girlhood 

Larcom 

1 , 2,3 

A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After 

E. Bok 

1 , 2,3 

Yesterdays with Authors (In Boston) 

Cheerful Yesterdays (In Cambridge and there¬ 

Fields 

3,4 

about) 

Higginson 

3,4 

Boyhood in Norway 

Boyesen 

1,2 

A Boy in Eirinn (Ireland) 

Colum 

I 

Boy Life on the Prairie 

Garland 

I 


BOOKS FOR HOME READING 

45 

Women Who Were Leaders 

Alice Freeman Palmer 

Palmer 

2 , 3 i 4 

Life of Florence Nightingale 

Richards 

2,3 

Carla Wenckebach, Pioneer 

Muller 

2,3 

Joan of Arc 

Carpenter 

2,3 

Margaret Ogilvie 

Barrie 

2,3 

Life of Mary Lyon 

Gilchrist 

2,3 

Abigail Adams and Her Times 

Richards 

2,3 

Clara Barton 

Epler 

2,3 

Clara Barton 

W. E. Barton 

2 , 3,4 

Lives of Writers 

Charlotte Bronte 

Gaskell 

2 , 3,4 

My Mark Twain 

Howells 

2,3 

Life of Mark Twain 

Paine 

2,3 

Also: Boy’s Life of Mark Twain 

Life of Stevenson 

Overton 

I 

2 , 3,4 

Life of Stevenson 

Balfour 

2 , 3,4 

Robert Louis Stevenson, a Life Study in 

Criticism 

Baildon 

2,3 

Life of Johnson (One of the greatest biographies) 

(Use abridged edition by Chapman, 

Osgood, or Watson) 

Boswell 

2 , 3,4 

Biography of 0 . Henry 

Smith 

2,3 

Dickens (Biographical essay and study) 

Chesterton 

3,4 

Life of Goldsmith 

Irving 

2,3 

John Burroughs, Boy and Man 

Barrus 

1,2 

Lives of Action and Adventure 

Henry Hudson 

Janvier 

I 

Paul Jones 

Hapgood 

2,3 

Paul Jones 

Brady 

1 

Boys’ Drake (the Admiral) 

Beacon 

I 

Life of Nelson 

Southey 

2,3 

Life of Nelson (as seen by a naval man) 

Mahan 

2,3 

Israel Putnam 

Livingston 

2,3 

Israel Putnam 

Hasbrouck 

1 , 2,3 

A Sailor’s Log 

(Admiral) Evans 

3,4 

From Sail to Steam 

Mahan 

2 , 3,4 

Daniel Boone, the Wilderness Scout 

White 

I 

Daniel Boone and the Wilderness Road 

Bruce 

I 

Daniel Boone 

Thwaites 

I 

David Crockett, Scout 

Allen 

I 

The Story of Stanley 

Golding 

I 


46 BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


Lives of Statesmen and Leaders- 


Boy’s Life of Grant 

Goss 

I 

Boys’ Life of Grant 

Hasbrouck 

I 

Boys’ Life of Lincoln 

Nicolay 

1 

Life of Lincoln 

CharnwiDod 

2,3 

Life of Lincoln 

Ida Tarbell 

2,3 

The True George Washington 

Ford 

2,3 

George Washington 

Lodge 

3,4 

George Washington (For younger readers) 

Scudder 

I 

Lee the American (Very good) 

Bradford 2 

, 3,4 

Lloyd George 

Dilnot 

3,4 

Story of General Pershing 

Tomlinson 

1,2 

Caesar, a Sketch 

Froude 

1,2 

Life of Carnegie 

Alderson 

1,2 

Boy’s Life of Edison 

Edison, his Life, and Inventions (For older 

Meadowcroft 

I 

readers) 

Dyer and Martin 2 

, 3,4 

Boy’s Life of Roosevelt 

Hagedom 

I 

Impressions of Roosevelt 

Abbott 

2,3 

Life of Napoleon 

Tarbell 

2,3 

First Napoleon (A serious study) 

Ropes 

4 x 

Robert Fulton and the Clermont 

Stories of Luther Burbank and His Plant 

Sutcliffe 

2,3 

School 

Slusser 

1,2 

Victoria (A study in character and history) 

Collections 

Strachey 

4 x 

Plutarch’s Lives (Boys’ and girls’ Plutarch) 

White 

I 

Plutarch’s Lives (Full translation, at least two) 

Plutarch 2 

, 3,4 

Famous Men of Rome 

Haaren 

I 

Book of Noble Women 

Buxton 

I 

Hero Tales from American History 

Lodge and Roosevelt 

I 

Portraits of Women 

Bradford 

2,3 

Girls Who Became Famous 

Bolton 

I 

Portraits of American Women 

Also: Union Portraits; Confederate Por¬ 
traits 

Bradford 

2,3 

Heroes of Progress in America 

Morris 

I 

Pioneers of Science 

Lodge 

1,2 

Americans by Adoption 

Husband i , 

| 2,3 

Leading American Inventors 

lies 

1,2 

Captains of Industry 

Parton 

1,2 

More than Conquerors 

Gilbert 

1,2 


BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


47 


Masters of Space Towers 

Careers of Danger and Daring Moffet 

Boys’ Book of Pioneers Wood 

Real Soldiers of Fortune Davis 

Famous Scouts Johnstop 

Little Journeys to the Homes of American 

Statesmen Hubbard 

Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the 

Civil War Johnson 

Ancient Man Van Loon 

Also: Short History of Discovery 
Stories of Adventure Told by Adventurers Hale 

Also: Stories of Discovery Told by Dis¬ 
coverers 

Boys’ Book of Explorations Jenks 

Women in American History Hasbrouck 

Heroines of Service Paikman 

LETTERS 

Individual 


1,2 

1,2 

I 

1 
1 

2 

I 

I 

I 


I 

1,2 

1,2 


(For years 2, 3, and 4) 

Life and Letters of Louisa Alcott 
Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll 
Letters of Charles Dickens 
Letters of Benjamin Franklin 
War Letters of Edmond Genet 
Letters of Susan Hale 
Letters of Donald Hankey 
Joyce Kilmer (Memorial edition) 
Letters of John Keats (to family circle) 
Letters of Charles Lamb 
Letters of Sidney Lanier 
Letters of James RusseU Lowell 
Life and Letters of Walter Page 
Letters of Rossevelt to his Children 
Letters and Diary of Alan Seegar 
Letters of Stevenson 
Vailima Letters (of Stevenson) 

Letters of Mark Twain 
Life and Letters 

Collections 

A Letter Book 
Selected Letters 


Cheney 

1,2 

Collingwood 

2,3 

Dickens and Hogarth 2,3 

Bigelow 

2,3 

Chapman 

2,3,4 

Atkinson 

2,3 

Hankey 

2,3,4 

Holliday 

2,3 

Colvin 

3,4 

Ainger 

2,3 

Lanier 

2,3 

Norton 

3,4 

Hendrick 

3,4 

Bishop 

1 , 2,3 

Seegar 

2,3 

Colvin 

4 

Colvin 

3,4 

Paine 

2,3 

James, W. 

4 

Saintsbury 

3,4 

Center 

1 , 2,3 


48 


BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


Half Hours with the Best Letter-Writers Knight 2,3 

Nineteenth Century Letters Rees 2,3,4 

The Great English Letter-Writers Dawson 2,3 

The Gentlest Art Lucas 2,3,4 

Also: The Second Post 

Familiar Letters Greenlaw 2,3 


Specimens of Letter Writing Lockwood and Kelley 1,2 


SPEECHES 

(Arranged by Authors. For years 3 and 4.) 


Beecher, H. W, 

Liverpool Address (To a hostile audience) 

Curtis 

The Right of Suffrage 

The Public Duty of Educated Men 

Grady 

The New South 

The Race Problem in the South 

Henry 

On the Adoption of the Constitution 

Lincoln 

Gettysburg Address (and one other) 

First Inaugural 

Second Inaugural 

Macaulay 

Speeches on Copyright 

Phillips, W. 

Suffrage for Women 

Toussaint L’Ouverture 

Schurz 

Internationa Arbitration 

True Americanism 

Seward 

The Irrepressible Conflict 

Webster 

First Bunker Hill Address 

Adams and Jefferson 

Collections of Speeches 

The Forum of Democracy (Speeches during 

the war) 

American Orations 

(There are several good 


collections) 

British Orations (There are several good col¬ 


lections) 

The World’s Best Orations Brewer 

Modern Eloquence Reed 

(Recommended in these and others, speeches by (English) Burke, Fox, Pitt, Macaulay, 
Gladstone, Bright, George. (American) Henry, Hamilton, Calhoun, Webster, 
Douglas, Sumner, Lincoln, Ingersoll, Beecher, Lodge, Roosevelt, Blaine, Bryan. 
Wilson.) 


BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


49 


MYTHOLOGY, LEGENDARY HISTORY, 
FOLK-LORE, ETC. 

Scandinavian 


Heroes of Asgard 

Keary 

1,2 

In the Days of Giants 

A. F. Brown 

1 

Stories of Norse Heroes 

Baxter 

I 

The Children of Odin 

P. Colum 

I 

Norse Stories 

Mabie 

I 

The Viking Age (in part only) 

Du Chaillu 

4x 

The Story of Grettir the Strong 

Baring 

I 

Legends of Northern Lands 

French 

1 

Irish and Celtic 

Hero Tales of Ireland 

Curtin 

1,2 

Heroes of Ireland 

French 

1,2 

Cuchulain of Muirthemne 

Gregory 

2,3 

Irish Fairy Tales 

Stephen 

1,2 

Classical Myths 

The Age of Fable 

Bulfinch 

1 , 2,3 

Gods and Heroes 

Fancillon 

1 

The Heroes 

Kingsley 

I 

Myths of Greece and Rome 

Guerber 

1,2 

Old Greek Folk Stories 

Peabody 

I 

Tales of Troy and Greece 

Lang 

I 

Classic Myths in English Literature 

Gayley 

1 

Wonder Book (Old stories retold) 

Hawthorne 

< 

1 

The Story of the Iliad 

Brooks 

1 

Stories from the Iliad 

Church 

I 

Stories from the Iliad 

Marvin 

1 

The Story of the Odyssey 

Brooks 

1 

Stories from the Odyssey 

Church 

I 

Adventures of Odysseus 

Colum 

I 

Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy 

Marvin 

I 

The Story of the Aeneid 

Brooks 

I 

The Aeneid for Boys and Girls 

Church 

1 

Miscellaneous 

Legends Every Child Should Know 

Mabie 

I 

Heroic Legends 

Hubertson 

I 

Bible Stories to Read and Tell 

Olcott 

1 


(Several good editions of Old Testament 
Stories) 


50 


BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


Story of the Golden Age 

Baldwin 

I 

Story of King Arthur and his Knights 

Pyle 

I 

Also: Story of the Champions of the Round 

Table 

King Arthur Stories 

Stevens 

I 

Book of the Epic 

Guerber 

I 

Welsh Fairy Tales 

Griffis 

I 

Boy’s Froissart 

Lanier 

I 

Also: Boy’s Mabinogion 

Heroes of Chivalry and Romance 

Church 

I 

Book of Romance 

Lang 

I 

Also: Tales of Wayland the Smith; Battle 
of Roncevalles 

The Story of Roland 

Baldwin 

I 

The Story of Robin Hood 

Finnemore 

I 

Stories from Malory 

Clay 

I 

Boy’s King Arthur 

Lanier 

1 

Blackfoot Lodge Tales 

Grinnell 

I 

Also: Pawnee Hero Stories 

Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley 

and the Great Lakes 

Judson 

I 

Also: Myths and Legends of California and 
the Southwest 

English Fairy Tales 

Jacobs 

1 

Also: Celtic Faiiy Tales 


INDEX 


9AGE 


Ab, Story of, Waterloo . 7 

Abbot, The, Scott . 16 

Abigail Adams and Her Times, Rich¬ 
ards . 45 

Acres of Diamonds, and Other Essays, 

Conwell . 33 

Across Unknown South America, 

Land or . 41 

Across the Andes, C. J. Post .41 

Actions and Reactions, Kipling . 18 

Adam Bede, Evans . ii 

Adams and Jefferson, Webster .48 

Addison, Macaulay .35 

Admirable Crichton, The, Barrie. ... 24 

Adonais, 31 

Adoption of the Constitution, On the, 

Henry . 48 

Adrift on an Ice-Pan, Grenfell .41 

Adventure of Life, Grenfell .33 

Adventures in Friendship, Grayson. .. 34 
Adventures of a Tropical Tramp, 

Foster . 41 

Adventures of Billy Topsail, Duncan. 19 
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Doyle 20 

Aeneid, The, Virgil . 49 

Afoot in England, W. H. Hudson .... 39 

African Camp Fires, S. E. White . 42 

African Game Trails, Roosevelt . 42 

Agamemnon, Aeschylus . 21 

Age of Fable, The, Bulfinch .49 

Alan Quartermain, Haggard . 5 

Alaska Days with John Muir, Young. 39 

Alcestis, Euripides . 21 

Alcott, Life and Letters of Louisa, 

Cheney . 47 

Alhambra, Tales from the, Irving. ... 18 

Alice Adams, Tarkington . 12 

Alice and a Family, Ervine . 14 

Alice-for-Short, DeMorgan . 13 

All Sorts and Conditions of Men, 

Besant . 12 

Alone in the Caribbean, Fenger . 38 

Amateur Emigrant, An, Stevenson. ... 38 

Amateur Gentleman, An, Farnol . 17 

Amazing Interlude, An, Rinehart. ... ii 
American Anthology, An, Stedman. .. 31 
American Big Game Hunting, Roose¬ 
velt and Grinnell . 42 

.American Ideals and Other Essays, 

Roosevelt . 33 

American Mind and American Ideal¬ 
ism, The, Perry . 37 


PAGE 


American Orations. 48 

American Poems, Scudder . 31 

Americanization of Edward Bok, E. 

Bok .43 

Americans All, 21 

Americans by Adoption, Husband .... 46 

Among Friends, Crothers . 32 

Among My Books, Lowell .34 

Anatomy of Poetry, The, Evils .34 

Ancient Man, Van Loon . 47 

Andivius Hedulio, E. L. . 16 

Anne, WooLson . 14 

Antigone, Sophocles . 21 

Arabian Nights Entertainment, The 

{Anonymous) . 17 

Arms and the Man, G. B. Shaw . 24 

.Art of Acting, On the, Irving .37 

As a Man Thinks, A. Thomas . 23 

As You Like It, Shakespeare . 22 

As Others See Us, Brooks .37 

Ascent of Danli, The, Stuck ....: _38 

.At the Back of the North Wind, 

G. MacDonald . 5 

Atalanta in Calydon, Swinburne .30 

Atlantic Book of Modem Plays, The, 

S. A. Leonard . 27 

Atlantic Classics, First and Second 

Series. 35 

Atlantic Narratives, {Atlantic) . 21 

Aucassin and Nicolette {Anonymous). 17 
Autobiography of a Clown, Marcosson 43 
Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, 

Davies . 43 

Autobiography of a Tomboy, Gilder.. 44 
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, The, 

Holmes . 34 

Autumn, Keats .31 

Awakening of Helena Richie. The, 

Deland . 11 

Aztec Treasure House, Janvier . 5 

B 

Bab Ballads, Gilbert . 30 

Babbitt, Lewis . 12 

Backgrounds of Literature, The, 

Mabie . 40 

Backlog Studies, C. D. Warner .36 

Bacon’s Essays, Bacon . 34 

Baddeck and that Sort of Thing, 

Warner . 41 

Ballad Book, A. K. Bates . 32 

Ballad Book, The, Allingham . 32 

Ballads, Edwards . 32 


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PAGE 


Ballads, Stevenson . 30 

Ballads, Popular English, Hart .32 

Ballads, The Best, Bryant . 22 

Ballads, Book of English, Mahie . 32 

Ballads, English and Scotch Popular, 

Withan . 32 

Ballads, Old English, Glimmere .32 

Bamaby Rudge, Dickens . 11 

Barchester Towers, 12 

Barrack-Room Ballads, Kipling .3c 

Barton, Clara.45 

Battle of Roncevalles, Lang . 50 

Beau Brummel, Fitch . 22 

Beach of Dreams, The, Stacpoole. ... 9 

Bealby, H. G. Wells . 13 

Beau of Bath, The, C. Mackay .26 

Bee, The, Maeterlinck .36 

Behind the Line, Barbour . 6 

Beloved Vagabond, The, Locke . 10 

Belshazzar Court, Strunsky .33 

Ben Hur, L. Wallace . 7 

Bent Twig, The, Fisher . 11 

Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush, 

Maclaren . 19 

Betty Leicester, Jewett . 6 

Beyond the Horizon, 0 ’iV« 7 /. 25 

Bible Stories to Read and Tell, Olcott. 49 
Bicyclers, The, and Other Farces, 

Bangs . 25 

Biography of a Grizzly, Seton-Thomp- 

son . 8 

Black Arrow, The, Stevenson . 7 

Black Rock, Conner . 10 

Black Sheep, J. MacKenzie .40 

Blackfoot Lodge Tales, Grinnell .50 

Blazed Trail, The, S. E. White . 10 

Bleak House, Dickens . 11 

Blind, The, Maeterlinck . 25 

Blue Bird, The, Maeterlinck . 23 

Blue Flower, The, Van Dyke . 28 

Blue Lagoon, The, 13 

Blue Poetry Book, The, Lang .31 

Bob, Son of Battle, Ollivant . 18 

Book of a Naturalist, The, Hudson. .. 36 

Book of Noble Women, Buxton . 46 

Book of Pity and Death, The, Loti. .. 44 

Emerson .35 

Books and Culture, H. Mabie .34 

Boone, Daniel, Thwaites . 45 

Boone, Daniel, The Wilderness Scout, 

White . 45 

Boots and Saddles, Custer . 42 

Bottle Imp, The, Stevenson . 15 

Boy I Knew, A, and Four Dogs, 

Hutton . 44 

Boy in Eirinn, A, Colum .44 

Boy Life on the Prairie, Garland . 44 

Boyhood in Norway, Boyesen .44 

Boy’s Town, A. Howells . 44 


PAGE 


Boys’ Book of Explorations, Jenks ... 47 

Boys’ Book of Pioneers, Wood . 47 

Brassbounders, The, Bone . 17 

Breaking in of a Yachtsman’s Wife, 

The, Vorse . 13 

Bright Roads of Adventure, R. D. 

Paine .43 

Brimming Cup, The, Fisher . ii 

Broad Highway, The, Farnol . 17 

Bronte, Charlotte, Gaskell .45 

Brunei’s Tower, E. Pkillpotts . 14 

Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coast, 

Stockton . 37 

Buried Alive, A. Bennett . ii 

Burroughs, John, Boy and Man, 

Barrus . 45 

By Oak and Thorn, A. Brown . 39 

By the Christmas Tree, Crothers .32 

c 

Cabbages and Kings, O. . 18 

Cabin, The, S. E. White .42 

Caesar, a Sketch, Froude .46 

Caesar and Cleopatra, G. B. Shaw. .. 24 
Caleb West, Master Diver, F. H. Smith 11 

Call of the Wild, The, London . 8 

Camp Life in the Woods, Gbson .35 

Campfires and Guide Posts, Van Dyke 36 

Campfires in the Canadian Rockies, 

Hornaday . 42 

Candida, G. B. Shaw . 24 

Canterbury Tales, The, Chaucer . 28 

Cape Cod, Thoreau . 36 

Cappy Ricks, P. B. Kyne . 9 

Captain Blood, Sabatini . 17 

Captain Eri, Lincoln . 12 

Captain Kettle, Hyne . 8 

Captain Macklm, R. H. Davis . 16 

Captains All,/ocoJx. 18 

Captains Courageous, Kipling . 8 

Captains of Industry, Par ton .46 

Caravaners, The, Arnim . 14 

Cardinal’s Snuff-box, Harland . 14 

Careers of Danger and Daring, Mofett 47 

Carla Wenckebach, Pioneer, Muller.. 45 

Carnegie, Life of, Alderson .46 

Carroll, Life and Letters of Lewis, 

Collingwood . 47 

Case of Rebellious Susan. The, //. A. 

Jones . 23 

Castaway Island, Newberry . 5 

Casting Away of Mrs. Leeks and Mrs. 

Aleshine, The, Stockton . 12 

Casuals of the Sea, McFee .n 

Cathleen ni Houlihan, Fga/5.26 

Cea.sQ Finag, M. Johnston . 15 

Celtic Fairy Tales, Jacobs . 50 

Certain Rich Man, A, W. A. White. . 12 

Changing America, Ross . 37 





























































































INDEX 


PAGE 


Changing Chinese, The, Ross . 42 

Changing Winds, Ervine . 9 

Chaplain of the Fleet, The, Besant ... 17 

Character, Emerson . 35 

Charles O’Malley, Lever . 14 

Cheerful Yesterday, Higginson .44 

Child of the Orient, Vc^a . 44 

Child’s Garden of Verse, A, Stevenson 30 
Children of Odin, The, P. Colum. ... 49 
Children of the Ghetto, Zangmll. ... 19 

Childe Harold, Byron .30 

China and Japan, Letters from, Dewey 41 
China the Mysterious and Marvellous, 

Murdock . 42 

Chita, Hearn . 16 

Choosing a Career, Mar den . 37 

Christmas Sermon, A, Stevenson .34 

Christmas Stories, Dickens . 8 

Christmas Stories, Field . 8 

Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker, 

Bryant . 11 

Circular Staircase, The, Rinehart .... 14 

Clark’s Field, Herrick . 12 

Classic Myths in English Literature, 

Gayley . 49 

Clayhanger, A. Bennett . 15 

Climbers, The, C. Fitch . 23 

CMwe, McLcaulay . 35 

Cloister and the Hearth, The, C. Reade 1 5 
College Course, The, and Preparation 

for Life, FiVc/f. 37 

College Girls, Briggs . 37 

College Life, Briggs . 37 

Colonel Carter of Cartersville, F. H. 

Smith . 10 

Command, McFee . 9 

Common Lot, The, ZTem'c/e. 12 

Compensation, 35 

Comus, Milton . 28 

Confederate Portraits, Bradford .46 

Confessions of a Macedonian Bandit, 

Sonnischen . 43 

Conqueror, The, Atherton . 10 

Conquest of Mexico, The, Prescott ... 38 

Conquest of Peru, The, Prescott .38 

Conservation of Energy, Stewart .37 

Conoldiiius,, Shakespeare . 22 

Cotter’s Saturday Night, The, Burns. 31 

Counsel Assigned, Andrews . 8 

Count of Monte Cristo, The, Dumas. 16 

Country Doctor, The, 12 

Country of the Pointed Firs,. 12 
Court of Boyville, The, W. A. White. 20 

Covered Wagon, The, E. Hough . 15 

Cowboy, The, Rollins . 42 

Cowrie Pass, Rideout . 5 

Cradle of the Deep, The, Treve^s .36 

Cranford, Gaskell . 11 

Creative Chemistry, Slosson . 37 


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Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, The, A 

France . 17 

Crisis, The, W. Churchill . 15 

Cruise of the Cachalot, The, Bullen.. 9 

Cruise of the Corwin, The, Muir .... 40 
Cruise of the Hippocampus, The, 

Loomis . 38 

Cruise of the Snark, The, J. London.. 40 
Cuchulain of Muirthemne, Gregory. . 49 

Cudjo’s Cave, Trowbridge . 7 

Cyrano de Bergerac, Rostand . 24 

D 

Dab Kinzer, Stoddard . 6 

Daddy-Long-Legs, Webster . -8 

Daniel Boone and the Wilderness 

Road, Bruce . 45 

Daughter of Heaven, Loti and Gautier 23 
Daughter of the Middle Border, A, 

Garland . 44 

David Balfour, 16 

David Copperfield, Dickens . ii 

David Crockett, Scout, Allen . 45 

Days Out and Other Papers, Wood- 

bridge . 34 

Days Out of Doors, Abbott . 35 

Day’s Work, The, Kipling . 18 

Death of Tintagiles, Maeterlinck . 25 

Deburau, Guitry . 25 

Deephaven, Jewett . 12 

Deep Waters, Connolly . 18 

Deering of Deal, Griswold . 6 

Deerslayer, The, 10 

Defense of Nonsense, Chesterton .33 

Deirdre of the Sorrows, Synge . 26 

Deluge, The, Sienkiewics . 15 

Deserted Village, The, Goldsmith . 28 

Devil’s Disciple, The, Shaw . 22 

Dickens, Chesterton . 45 

Dickens, Letters of Charles, Dickens 

and Hogarth . 47 

Dingbat of Arcady, The, Wilkinson.. 39 

Discovering “Evelina,” Moore . 17 

Disenchanted, Loti . 16 

Disraeli, Parker . 22 

Ditte, Girl Alive, Nexo . n 

Diversity of Creatures, Kipling . 18 

Divine Comedy, The, Dante . 28 

Dog of Flanders, A, Ramee . 8 

Doll’s House, A, Ibsen . 24 

Dombey and Son, Dickens . 11 

Don Quixote, Cervantes . 17 

Donegal Fairy Tales, McManus . 19 

Dove in the Eagle’s Nest, The, Yonge 7 

Dover Road, The, 24 

Down to the Sea, Robertson . 18 

Dr. Faustus, Marlowe . 22 

Dr. Grenfell’s Parish, Duncan . 41 

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson.. 16 





















































































54 


BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


PAGE 


Dr. Lavendar’s People, Deland . 19 

Dr. Sevier, Cable . 10 

Dragon, The, Gregory . 23 

Dragon and the Raven, The, Henty .. 7 

Drake Boy’s, Beacon . 45 

Dramatists, Chief Contemporary, 

First Series, T. H. Dickinson . 26 

Dramatists, Chief Contemporary, 
Second Series, T. H. Dickinson .... 27 

Dri and I, I. Bacheller . 7 

Duchess of Wrexe, The, Walpole . 11 

Durable Satisfactions of Life, Eliot ... 33 
Dutch Boy Fifty Years After, A, E. 

Bok . 44 

Dynamiter, The, Stevenson . 14 

E 

Earthly Paradise, The, W. Morris ... 29 

Echoes of the War, Barrie . 26 

Edge of the Jungle, The, Beebe .35 

Edison, Boy’s Life of, Meadowcroft... 46 
Edison, His Life and Inventions, Dyer 

and Martin . 46 

Efficient Life, The, .33 

Egypt and Its Monuments, Hichens .. 41 

Eight Cousins, L. Alcott . 6 

Eldest Son, The, 13 

Elizabeth and Her German Garden, 

Arnim . 12 

Elm Island Stories, 8 

El Supremo, E. L. White . 16 

Emmy Lou, G. M. Martin . 6 

Endicott and I, Warner .36 

Endymion, Keats .30 

Enemy of the People, An, Ibsen . 24 

England and the English from an 
American Point of View, P. Collier. 39 
English Mail Coach, The, and Other 

Essays, DeQuincey . 34 

Enoch Arden, Tennyson . 29 

Epic, Book of the, Giierber . 50 

Essays, Carlyle . 34 

Essays, a Collection of, Fuess .35 

Essays, English, Bronson . 35 

Essays, a Selection from the Best 

English, CoJy. 35 

Essays, English and American, Alden 35 
Essays and Essay Writing, Tanner... 35 
Essays and Literary Studies, Leacock. 33 

Essays, Modem, Morley . 35 

Essays of Elia, Lamb . 34 

Essays on Art, Brock . 37 

Essays, Selected, Fuess . 35 

Evelina, Burney . 17 

Everyman, {Anonymous) . 22 

F 

FdAA&B, Stevenson . 34 

Face of the Fields, The, Sharp .36 


PAGE 


Faerie Queene, The, Spenser . 28 

Fairy Tales, English, Jacobs . 50 

FaitL Healer, The. 27 

Fall of the Year, The, Sharp .36 

Familiar Letters, Greenlaw . 48 

Family of the Sun, The, Holden .36 

Famous Adventures and Prison Es¬ 
capes of the Civil War, Johnson. .. 47 

Famous Men of Rome, Fuargw.46 

Famous Mrs. Fair, The, Forbes . 23 

Famous Scouts, Johnston . 47 

Fanciful Tales. Stockton . 8 

Fannie’s First Play, G. B. Shaw . 24 

Far Away and Long Ago. W H. Hud¬ 
son . 43 

Father Marquette, Tkwaites . 38 

Faust, Goethe . 24 

Felix Holt, Evans . n 

Field of Glory, The, Sienkiewicz . 15 

Fifty-Four Forty or Fight, E. Hough. 15 
First Bunker Hill Address, Webster... 48 

First Inaugural, Lincoln . 48 

Eirst Napoleon, Ropes . 46 

First Through the Grand Canyon, 

Powell . 38 

sherman’s Luck, Van Dyke . 36 

Five Nations, Kipling . 30 

Flight of a Tartar Tribe, The, 

DeQuincey . 34 

Flock, The, Austin . 35 

Flowing Road, The, C. Whitney .41 

Fool, The, Pollock . 25 

Forest, The, S. E. White . 36 

Foresters, The, Tennyson . 22 

Florida Enchantments, Dimock .41 

Fortitude, Walpole . 9 

Forty Years of It, Whitlock . 43 

Forum of Democracy, The. 48 

Four Million, The, 0 . Henry . 18 

Four Months Afoot in Spain, Franck. 39 
Franklin, Autobiography, Benjamin 

Franklin . 43 

Franklin, Benjamin, Letters of, Bige¬ 
low . 47 

French Revolution, Cwr/y/g.38 

Freshman, The, and His College, Lock- 

wood . 37 

Frenzied Fiction, 33 

Fresh Fields, Burroughs .36 

Friend of Caesar, A, W. H. Davis _ 16 

Friendly Arctic, The, Stefansson . 40 

Friendly Road, The, Grayson . 34 

Friendship, Black . 32 

Friendship, 35 

Friendship Village, Gale . 18 

Fritchie, Barbara, Fitch . 22 

Frogs, The, Aristophanes . 21 

Froissart, Boy’s, Lanier . 50 

From Alien to Citizen, Steiner, . 43 






















































































INDEX 


55 


PAGE 


From Job to Job Around the World, 

Fletcher . 39 

From Pillar to Post, Bangs .32 

From Sail to Steam, Mahan . 45 

From the Deep Woods to Civilization, 

Eastman . 43 

Fulton, Robert, and the Clermont, 
Sutcliffe ..*. 45 


G 

Gallegher and Other Stories, Davis. .. 8 

Galusha the Magnificent, Lincoln .... 12 

Gardens of the Caribbees, Stowe .41 

Gateway to Sahara, The, Furlong. ... 41 

Gentle Reader, The, Crothers . 32 

Gentleman of France, A, Weyman. .. 16 

Gentlest Art, The, Lucas .48 

Gettysburg Address, Lincoln .48 

Ghost Girl, The, 13 

Girl from the Marshcroft, Lagerlof. .. 18 
Girls Who Became Famous, Bolton... 46 

Glengarry Schooldays, Conner . 10 

Glittering Gate, The, Dunsany . 25 

Glorious Rascal, The, McCarthy .16 

Goblin Market, C. Rossetti . 29 

Gods and Heroes, Fancillon .49 

Gods of the Mountain, Dunsany . 25 

Going Down to Jerusalem, Duncan. . 41 

Gold, O^Neill . 25 

Go.den Age, The, Gra/wrw.18 

Golden Age, Story of the, Baldwin. .. 50 

Golden Doom, The, Dunsany . 25 

Golden Legend, The, Longfellow .29 

Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics, 

The, Palgrave . 31 

Golden Windmill, The,, and Other 

Stories, Aumonier . 20 

Goldsmith, Life of, Irving . 45 

Gondola Days, F. H. Smith .43 

Gosta Berling, Lagerlof . 18 

Grant, Boys’ Life of,.46 

Great Adventure, The, A. Bennett. . . 23 
Great Divide, The, W. V. Moody. ... 25 
Great English Letter-Writers, The, 

Dawson .*.. 48 

Great Expectations, Dickens . 11 

Great Possessions, Grayson . 34 

Green Goddess, The, Archer . 25 

Green Mansions, Hudson . 13 

Green Mirror, The, H. Walpole . 13 

Greenmantle, Buchan . 7 

Grettir the Strong, The Story of. 

Baring . 49 

Grey Room, The, E. Phillpotts . 14 

Greyfriar’s Bobbie, Atkinson . 8 

Grit-a-Plenty, Wallace . 7 

Grizzly, The, Mills .36 

Gulliver’s Travels, Swift . 16 

Guy Mannering, Scott . 14 


PAGE 


Hale, Letters of Susan, Atkinson . 47 

Half Hours, Barrie . 26 

Half Hours with the Best Letter Writ¬ 
ers, Knight . 48 

Hamlet, Shakespeare . 22 

Handy Andy, Lever . 14 

Handy Guide for Beggars, Lindsay... 33 
Hankey, Donald, Letters of, Hankey. 47 
Happy Warrior, The, Hutchinson .... 18 

Harbor, The, E. Poole . 15 

Harbor Tales Down North, Duncan.. 19 
Haunted Bookshop, The, Morley. ... 13 

Hunters of the Silences, Roberts . 36 

Hawaii, Gerould .40 

He and She, Cr others . 23 

He Klnew Lincoln, Tarhell . 8 

Heart of the Ancient Wood, Roberts.. 36 

Heart’s Highway, The, Freeman . 10 

Helen with the High Hand, A. Bennett 14 

Helmet of Navarre, The, Runkle . 16 

Henry Esmond, T hacker ay . 15 

Henry V, Shakespeare . 22 

Here, There, and Everywhere, Hamil¬ 
ton . 40 

Here ward the Wake, Kingsley . 5 

Heritage of Tyre, The, Meloney .37 

Hero Tales from American History, 

Lodge and Roosevelt .46 

Hero Tales of Ireland, Curtin .49 

Hero Tales of the Far North, Riis. .. 40 

Heroes, The, Kingsley . 49 

Heroes and Hero-Worship, Carlyle ... 34 

Heroes of Asgard, Keary . 49 

Heroes of Chivalry and Romance, 

Church . 50 

Heroes of Ireland, French . 49 

Heroes of Progress in America, Morris 46 

Heroes of the Storm, O'Connor .37 

Heroic Legends, Hebertson .49 

Heroines of Service, Parkman .47 

Heroism, Emerson . 35 

High Benton, Heyliger . 6 

High Tide, Richards . 31 

Hindrances to Good Citizenship, Bryce 37 

Hints to Pilgrims, Brooks . 32 

History of Mr. Polly, The, H. G. Wells 13 

Home, Maeterlinck . 25 

Home Fires in France, Fisher .39 

Home Life in Germany, Sidgwick .... 39 
Honorable Peter Stirling, The, Ford.. 12 
Honour of the School, The, Barbour.. 6 

Hoosier Schoolmaster, The, Eggleston. 18 


Hour-Glass, Yeats .'26 

House of Baltazar, The, Locke . 10 

House of Mirth, The, Wharton . 9 

House of Rimmon, The, VanDyke. .. 22 
House of Seven Gables, The, Haw¬ 
thorne . II 














































































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BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


PAGE 


How I Found Livingston, Stanley .... 42 

How the Other Half Lives, Riis .37 

How to Judge a Picture, Van Dyke. . 37 
How to Listen to Music, Krehhiel .... 37 
How to Live on Twenty-four Hours a 

Day, A. Bennett .33 

Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain . 5 

Hudson, Henry, Janvier .45 

Hugh Wynne, Mitchell . 9 

Human Machine, The, A. Bennett. .. 33 

Humanly Speaking, Crothers .32 

Humble Romance, A, and Other 

Stories, Freeman . 19 

Hungry Hearts, Yezierska . 20 

Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, Roose- 

vdt .42 

Himting Wasps, Fahre . 36 

Huntingtower, Buchan . 14 

Huxley, Autobiography and Selected 

Essays, Huxley . 37 

Hyacinth Halvey, Gregory . 26 

H)^atia, C. Kingsley . 15 

I 

Iceland Fisherman, An, Loti . 16 

Idylls of the King, Tennyson . 29 

If I Were King, McCarthy . 22 

II Penseroso, Milton . 28 

Iliad, The. 49 

Imaginary Invalid, The, Moliere . 24 

Importance of Being Earnest, The, 

Wilde . 23 

Impressions of Roosevelt, Abbott .46 

In a New Century, Martin . 32 

In African Forest and Jungle, Du 

Chaillu . 42 

In Desert and Wilderness, Sienkiewicz 5 

In Eastern Wonderlands, Gibson . 40 

In Far New Guinea, Newton .43 

In Ole Virginia, Page . 19 

In Our Convent Days, Repplier .44 

In Our Unknown Southwest, Laut ... 40 
In the Alaska Wilderness, G. B. Gor¬ 
don . 39 

In the Days of Giants, A. F. Brown.. 49 
In the Days of Poor Richard, Bachel- 

ler . 10 

In the Forbidden Land, Landor . 38 

In the Hands of a Receiver, Cr others. 32 
In the Tennessee Mountains, Craddock 19 
In the Track of the Trades, Freeman. 40 

In the Valley, Frederick . 9 

In the Wilderness, C. D. Warner . 36 

India, Menpes .43 

Indian Boyhood, Eastman .43 

Indian of Today, The, Eastman .33 

Indians of Today, Grinnell .37 

Ingoldsby Legends, The, Barham .... 30 
Inland Voyage, An, Stevenson .39 


PAGE 


Innocence of Father Brown, The, 

Chesterton . 20 

Innocents Abroad, The, Mark Twain. 39 

Insect Adventures, Fabre .36 

Insect World, The, Holden . 36 

Inside of the Cup, The, Churchill .... 12 
International Arbitration, Schtirz. ... 48 

Intimate Strangers, Tarkington . 23 

Intruder, The, Maeterlinck . 25 

Invisible Man, The, H. G. Wells . 14 

Irish Fairy Tales, Stephen . 49 

Irish Fairy Tales, Yeats . 19 

Irish Folk-History Plays, Gregory .... 25 

Iron Woman, The, Deland . ii 

Irrepressible Conflict, The, Seward... 48 

Isle of Vanishing Men, Alder . 40 

Ivanhoe, Scott . 16 

Ivory Trail, The, Miindy . 7 

J 

Jackanapes, Ewing . 6 

James, W., Life and Letters of, W. 

James . 47 

Jane Eyre, C. Bronte . 14 

Janice Meredith, Ford . 9 

Japan, a Record in Color, Menpes. . . 42 

Japan Day by Day, E. S. Morse . 42 

Jeanne D’Arc, Mackaye . 22 

Jefferson, Joseph, Autobiography, 

Joseph Jefferson .:.43 

Jeremy, Walpole . 18 

Jerry of the Islands, London . 8 

Jessamy Bride, The, Moore . 17 

Jew of Malta, The, Marlowe . 22 

Jim Davis, Masefield . 8 

Joan of Arc, Carpenter . 45 

Joan of Arc, Personal Recollections of, 

Mark Twain . 15 

John Ferguson, Ervine . 23 

John Halifax, Gentleman, Craik . 15 

John Silence, Blackwood . 20 

Johnson, Macaulay . 35 

Johnson, Life of, Boswell . 45 

JoUy Fellowship, A, Stockton . 6 

Jones, Paul......; .45 

Joseph Vance, DeMorgan . 13 

Joy in Work, Lasalle . 21 

Judith Shakespeare, W. Black . 10 

Julius Caesar, Shakespeare . 22 

Jungle Books, The, Kipling . 7 

Jungle Peace, Beebe . 35 

Justice, Galsworthy . 24 

K 

Keats, John, Letters of, Colvin .47 

Kenilworth, Scott . 15 

Kptucky Cardinal, A, J. L. Allen. .. 10 

Kidnapped, Stevenson . 16 

Kilmer, Joyce, Holliday .47 




















































































INDEX 


PAGE 


Kim, Kipling . i6 

Kindred of the Wild, Roberts .36 

King Arthur. 50 

King Cole, Masefield . 29 

King Lear, Shakespeare . 22 

King Solomon’s Mines, Haggard . 5 

King of the Golden River, John Rus- 

kin . 6 

King of the Khyber Rifles, Mundy... 7 

Kipps, H. G. Wells . 13 

Knickerbocker’s History of New York, 

Irving . 13 

Knights of the Cross, Sienkiewicz .... 15 

L 

Labrador Days, Grenfell .41 

Labrador Doctor, A, Grenfell . 44 

Labrador: The Country and the 

People, Grenfell .41 

Lad, a Dog, Terhune . 8 

Lady from the Sea, The, Ibsen .24 

Lady of the Lake, The, Scott . 29 

Lady, The, or the Tiger? and Other 

Stories, Stockton . 19 

L’Aiglon, Rostand . 24 

L’Allegro, Milton .;28 

Lamb, Letters of Charles, Ainger. ... 47 

Lance of Kenana, The, French . 6 

Land of Footprints, The, 5 '. E. White. 42 

Land of Heart’s Desire, Yeats .26 

Land of Pluck, The, Dodge . 42 

Land of the Lingering Snow, Balles. . 40 
Land of the Long Night, The, DiiCha- 

illu . 41 

Land of Tomorrow, The, W. B. Steph¬ 
enson, Jr . 39 

Land of Veiled Women, The, Fraser.. 41 
Lanier, Sidney, Letters of, Lanier .... 47 
Leading American Inventors, lies.... 46 

Lee the American, Bradford .46 

Legendary Ballads, 32 

Letter Book, A, Saintsbury . 47 

Last Days of Pompeii, 16 

Last of the Barons, Lytton . 5 

Last of the Mohicans, Cooper . 10 

Laughter of the Gods, The, Dnnsany. 25 
Lay of the Last Minstrel, The, Scott.. 29 
Lays of Ancient Rome, Macaulay .... 29 


Legends Every Child Should Know, 


Mabie . 49 

Legends of Northern Lands, French.. 49 
Leopard Woman, The, S. E. White... 13 

LePetit Nord, Grenfell .4° 

Les Miserables, H^igo . iS 

Letters of a Woman Homesteader, 

Stewart . 4 o 

Letters to Young Men, Canfield .37 

Life and Death of Jason, The, W. 
Morris . 29 


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PAGE 


Life of a Tiger, The, Eardley-Wilmot. 36 

Life on the Stage, C. Morris .44 

Light that Failed, The, Kipling .ii 

Lilac Sunbonnet, Crockett . 14 

Lincoln, Abraham, Drinkwater . 22 

Lincoln, Boys’ Life of, Nicolay .46 

Lincoln, Life of.46 

Little Aliens, Kelly . 20 

Little Boy Lost, Hudson . 6 

Little Citizens, Kelly . 20 

Little Dorrit, Dickens . ii 

Little Dream, The, Galsworthy . 26 

Little Journeys to the Homes of Amer¬ 
ican Statesmen, Hubbard .47 

Little Lame Prince, The, Craik . 6 

Little Man, The, Galsworthy .26 

Little Minister, The, Barrie . 16 

Little of Everything, A, Lucas . 32 

Little Rivers, Van Dyke . 36 

Little Theatre Classics, S. A. Eliot... 27 

Little Women, L. Alcott . 6 

Liverpool Address, H. W. Beecher - 48 

Lloyd George, Dilnot .46 

Locked Chest, The, Masefield .25 

Locusts and Wild Honey, Burroughs. 36 

Log of the Snark, The, C. London _ 40 

Long Exile, The, and Other Stories, 

Tolstoi . 19 

Long Roll, The, M. Johnston . 15 

Long Will, Converse . 7 

Lord Jim, Conrad . n 

Lorna Doone, Blackmore . 14 

Lost Endeavor, if. 9 

Lost Prince, The, Burnett . 6 

Lost Ships and Lonely Seas, Paine ... 41 

Lost Trail, Z. Grey . 7 

Lowell, James Russell, Letters of, 

Norton . 47 

Loyalties, Galsworthy . 23 

Luck of Roaring Camp, The, Bret 

Harte . 19 

Lure of the Labrador Wild, Wallace.. 41 
Luther Burbank and His Plant School, 

Stories of, Slusser . 46 

Lycidas, Milton . 28 

Lyon, Life of Mary, Gilchrist .45 

Lyra Heroica, Henley .31 

M 

Mabinogion, Boy’s, Lanier . 50 

Macbeth, Shakespeare . 22 

Madness of Philip, The, Daskam . 20 

Magic, Chesterton . 23 

Magnetic North, The, Robins .10 

Magnificent Ambersons, The, Tark- 

ington . 12 

Main Street, Lewis . 12 

Main Travelled Roads, Garland .19 

Maine Woods, The, Thoreau .36 















































































5« 


BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


PAGE 

Major’s Nieces, The, Hannay .14 

Malory, Stories from. Clay . 50 

Man-Eaters of Tsavo, The, Patterson. 42 

Man for the Ages, A, Bacheller .10 

Man from Glengarry, The, Conner ... 10 
Man of Destiny, The, G. B. Shaw .... 24 
Man of Property, The, Galsworthy. . . ii 
Man Who Lost Himself, The, Stac- 


poole . 13 

Man Without a Country, A, and Other 

Stories, Hale . 8 

Mankind, The Story of. Van Loon... 38 

Manners, Emerson .35 

Many Cargoes, Jacobs . 18 

Many Inventions, Kipling . 18 

March to London, The, Henty . 7 

Margaret Ogilvie, Barrie . 45 

Margin of Hesitation, The, Colby. ... 32 

Maria Chapdelaine, Hemon . 10 

Marjorie Daw and Other Stories, Aid- 

rich . 20 

Mark Twain, Boy’s Life of, Paine. . . 45 

Mark Twain, Letters of, Paine .47 

Mark Twain, Life of, Paine .45 

Marmion, Scott . 29 

Marooned, W. C. Russell . 9 

Marriage of William Ashe, The, H. 

Ward . 13 

Martin Chuzzlewit, Dickens . ii 

Martin Hyde, Masefield . 8 

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard, 

Farjeon . 10 

Mary Barton, Gaskell . 15 

Mary Goes First, H. A. Jones . 23 

Mary Rose, Barrie . 24 

Mason Bees, The, Fabre . 36 

Master of Ballantrae, The, Stevenson, ii 

Master Skylark, J. Bennett . 7 

Master Will of Stratford, Garnett. ... 7 

Masters of Space, Towers . 47 

Story of Matka, The, Jordan . 35 

Mazeppa, Byron . 29 

Meadow-Grass, A. Brown . 19 

Meaning of Pictures, The, Van Dyke. 37 
Melancholy Tale of Me, The, Sothern. 44 

Melting Pot, The, Zangwill . 25 

Memoirs of a Midget, De la Mare.... 13 

Memories, Galsworthy .44 

Memories of My Life, Bernhardt .44 

Men, Books, and Cities, Holliday. ... 32 

Men of Iron, H. Pyle . 5 

Men, Women, and Boats, Crane .20 

Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare. ... 22 

Merely Mary Ann, Zangwill .. 23 

Merry Men, The, and Other Stories, 

Stevenson . 20 

Message to Garcia, A, E. Hubbard... 32 
Messer Marco Polo, D. Byrne . 14 


PAGE 


Micah Clark, Doyle . iS 

Michael, London . 8 

Midshipman Easy, Marry at . 8 

Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shake¬ 
speare . 22 

Miles Wallingford, Cooper . 15 

Milestones, Bennett and Knoblauch... 24 

Mill on the Floss, The, Evans . n 

Mince Pie, C. Morley .33 

Mirror of the Seas, The, Conrad .36 

Miss Lulu Bett, Z. Ga/e. 9 

Mixed Marriage, Ervine . 27 

Mob, The, Galsworthy . 23 

Moby Dick, H. Melville . 9 

Modern Eloquence, Reed .48 

Modern Painters, Ruskin .35 

Mollusc, The, W. H. Davis . 23 

Monday Tales, Daudet . 19 

Monsieur Beaucaire, Tarkington . 16 

Montcalm and Wolfe, Parkman .38 

Moonstone, The, W. Collins .14 

Moral Obligation to be Intelligent, 

The, Erskine .33 

More than Conquerors, Gilbert .46 

Motley, Galsworthy . 20 

Mountains, The, S. E. White .42 

Mouse, Burns .31 

Mouse-Trap, The, and Other Farces, 

Howells . 25 

Mr. Crewe’s Career, Churchill . 12 

Mr. Dooley in the Hearts of His Coun¬ 
trymen, Dunne . 34 

Mr. Pirn Passes By, Milne . 24 

Mr. Pratt, Lincoln . 12 

Musicians of Today, Rolland .37 

Mutineers, The, Hawes . 17 

My Antonia, Cother . ii 

My Arctic Journal, Peary . 40 

My Danish Sweetheart, W. C. Russell 9 
My First Summer in the Sierras, Muir 42 

My Irish Year, P. Colum .39 

My Lady’s Dress, Knoblauch . 25 

My Life and Work, Ford {and Others) 43 

My Life as an Indian, Schultz .43 

My Life with the Eskimo, Stefans son. 39 

My Mark Twain, Howells .45 

My Mother and I, Craik .43 

My Reminiscences, Pumpelly .43 

My Study Fire, H. Mabie .34 

My Study Windows, Lowell .34 

My Summer in a Garden, C. D. Warn- 

. 36 

My Winter on the Nile, Warner .41 

Mysterious Island, The, Ferwe. 6 

Mysterious Rider, Z. Grey . 7 

Mystic Isles of the South Seas, F. 

O'Brien .40 

Myths and Legends of California and 
the Southwest,. 50 






















































































INDEX 


PAGE 


Myths and Legends of the Mississippi 
Valley and the Great Lakes, Judson 50 
Myths of Greece and Rome, Giierher . 49 

N 

Napoleon, Life of, Tarbell .46 

Narrative and Lyric Poems, Seward.. 31 
Narrative Poems, One Hundred, Trent 31 

Nathan Hale, Ef/c/?. 22 

Near East, The, Hichens .41 

Nelson, Life of, Southey .45 

Nero, S. Phillips . 22 

New Arabian Nights, Stevenson . 14 

New South, The, Grady .48 

New England Boyhood, A, Hale .44 

New England Girlhood, A, Larcom... 44 
New England Nun, A, and Other Sto¬ 
ries, Freeman . 19 

New June, The, Newholt . 17 

New Poetry, The, Monroe and Hender¬ 
son . 32 

New Rivers of the North, Fortner .... 40 

New Voices, Wilkinson . 32 

Newcomes, The, Thackeray . 14 

Newman, Selections from the Writings 

of, N.ewman . 35 

Nicholas Nickleby, Dickens . 11 

Nigger of the Narcissus, The, Conrad. 9 

Night, SM/ey. 31 

Night at an Inn, A, Dunsany.. . 25 

Nightingale, Life of Florence, Richards 45 
Nights with Uncle Remus, Harris.... 8 

Nils, The Wonderful Adventures of, 

Lagerlof . 18 

Nineteenth Century Letters, Rees .... 48 

Ninety-Three, Hugo . iS 

Nonsense Anthology, Wells .32 

Norse Heroes, Stories of, Baxter .49 

Norse Stories, Mahie . 49 

North of Boston, .30 

North Pole, The, Peary . 38 

Nostromo, Conrad . 16 

Not that it Matters, Milne .32 

Nurnberg Stove, The, Ramee . 8 

O 

0 . Henry Biography, Smith . 45 

O. Henry Prize Stories. 21 

O Pioneers, Cather .. • 11 

Ocean and Its Mysteries, The, Verrill 36 
Odd Number, The, DeMaupassant... 19 

Ode to a Grecian Urn, Keats .31 

Ode to Duty, Wordsworth . 30 

Odyssey. 28,49 

Old Chester Tales, Deland . 19 

Old Curiosity Shop, Dickens . 11 

Old Gentleman of the Black Stock, 

The, T. N. Page ... 10 

Old Gorgon Graham, Lor inter . 37 


59 

PAGE 


Old Greek Folk Stories, Peahody . 49 

Old Judge Priest, Cobb . 20 

Old Lamps for New, Lucas . 32 

Old Santa Fe Trail, The, Inman . 42 

Old Virginia Gentleman, The, Baghy. 44 

Old Wives’ Tale, A. Bennett . 15 

Oliver Twist, ii 

Omoo, Melville . 40 

On Nothing, Belloc . 32 

On Something, Belloc . 32 

Once Aboard the Lugger, Hutchinson. 18 
One I Knew Best of All, The, Burnett. 44 

One of Ours, Cather . ii 

Opal, The Story of, Whitely . 36 

Open Sea, Van Dyke . 36 

Optimism, Keller . 33 

Orations, British. 48 

Oregon Trail, The, Parkman . 42 

Othello, Shakespeare . 22 

Otto of the Silver Hand, Pyle . 7 

Our English Cousins, R. H. Davis _ 39 

Our Mutual Friend, Dickens . ii 

Our Southern Highlanders, Kephart.. 41 

Out of Gloucester, Connolly . 18 

Out of the East, Hearn .42 

Out of the Shadow, Rose Cohen . 43 

Over Japan Way, Hitchcock .42 

Oxford Book of Verse, The, Couch... 31 


P 

Page, Walter, Life and Letters of. 


Hendrick .47 

Palmer, Alice Freeman, Palmer .45 

Pampas, Tales of the, Hudson . 18 

Panama, Past and Present, Verrill... 41 

Pan Michael, Sienkiewicz . 15 

Paola and Francesca, S. Phillips . 22 

Paradise Lost, Milton . 28 

Pardoner’s Wallet, A, Crothers .32 

Parnassus on Wheels, Morley . 13 

Parody Anthology, Wells .32 

Pass, The, S. E. White .42 

Passing of the Third Floor Back, The, 

Jerome . 23 

Pathfinder, Cooper . 10 

Patient Observer, The, Strunsky .33 

VdXsy, Stacpoole . 14 

Pawnee Hero Stories, Grinnell . 50 

Peer Gynt,. 22 

PeUeas and Melisande, Maeterlinck... 26 

Penrod, Tarkington . 5 

Penrod and Sam, Tarkington . 5 

Pepacton, Burroughs . 36 

Perfect Tribute, The, Andrews . 8 

Pershing, General, Story of, Tomlinson 46 

Peter and Wendy, Barrie . 6 

Peterkin Papers, L. P. Hale . 8 

Philosophy 4, Wister . 20 

Phra the Phoenician, E. Arnold . 7 





















































































6o 


BOOKS FOR HOME READING 


PAGE 


Pickwick Papers, Dickens . 13 

Pierre and His People, Parser. 19 

Pigeon, The, Galsworthy . 24 

Pilgrim’s Progress, Bunyan . 17 

Pioneer, Story of a, /I. Shaw .44 

Pioneers, Cooper . 10 

Pioneers of Science, Lodge .46 

Pipefuls, C. Morley .33 

Piper, The, Peabody . 23 

Pippa Passes, Browning . 22 

Plain Tales from the Hills, Kipling. . 18 

Plays, Glaspell . 26 

Plays, Contemporary One-Act, B. R. 

Lewis . 27 

Plays, Fifty Contemporary One-Act, 

Shay and Loving . 27 

Plays for Classroom Interpretation, 

Knickerbocker . 27 

Plays, Longer by Modem Authors, 

H. L. Cohen . 26 

Plays, Modem American, G. P. Baker 26 

Plays of Pioneers, C. Mackay . 26 

Plays, One-act, by Modem Authors, 

H. L. Cohen . 27 

Plays, Representative American, A. 

H. Quinn . 27 


Plays, Representative One-Act, by 
American Authors, M. A. Mayorga 27 
Plays, Representative, of American 


Dramatists, Volume HI, M. J. 

Moses . 27 

Plays, Representative One-Act, by 
British and Irish Authors, Clark... 27 

Plots and Playwrights. 26 

Plutarch’s Lives, Plutarch . 46 

Poems, British, Hutchison . 31 

Poems, Modern American, Untermeyer 32 
Poems, Modem British, Untermeyer. . 32 
Poems, Modem British and American, 

Untermeyer . 32 

Poetry, Selections from American, 

Law . 31 

Poets, The Chief American, Page. ... 31 

Poets, English, Ward . 31 

Poets, Little Book of American, Rit~ 

tenhouse .31 

Pomander Walk, Parker . 22 

Pool of Stars, The, Meigs . 6 

Pools of Silence, Stacpoole . 13 

Portmanteau Plays, Walker . 27 

Portraits of American Women, Brad¬ 
ford . 46 

Portraits of Women, Bradford . 46 

Portygee, The, Lincoln . 12 

Pot of Broth, A, Yeats . 26 

Prairie, Cooper . 10 

Prester, John, Buchan . 7 

Pride and Prejudice, Austen . 12 

Pride of Jennico, The, Castle . 16 


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Prince and the Pauper, The, Mark 

Twain . 7 

Prince’s Progress, The, C. Rossetti _ 29 

Princess, The, Tennyson . 29 

Princess Far-away, The, Rostand. ... 24 

Princess of Thule, A, W. Black . 10 

Princeton Stories, Williams . 20 

Print of My Remembrance, The, 

Thomas . 44 

Prisoner of Chillon, The, Byron . 29 

Prisoner of Zenda, The, Hope .16 

Privet Hedge, The, Jameson . 12 

Professor at the Breakfast Table, The, 

Holmes .. 34 

Prometheus Unbound, Shelley .30 

Promised Land, The, Mary Antin.... 43 

Pmnella, Barker and Housman .22 

Public Duty of Educated Men, The, 

Curtis .48 

Puck of Pook’s Hill, Kipling . 20 

Pudd’nhead Wilson, Mark Twain .... 14 

Purple Land, The, Hudson . 13 

Putnam, Israel.45 

Pygmahon, G. B. Shaw . 24 

Q 

Queen of the Air, Ruskin . 35 

Queen’s Enemies, The, Dunsany . 25 

Quentin Durward, Scott . 5 

Quest, The, Hawes . 17 

Quinney’s Romance, Vachell . 23 

Quo Vadis, Sienkiewicz . 16 

R 

Rab and His Friends, Brown . 20 

Race Problem in the South, The, 

Grady . 48 

Radical, Evans . n 

Raiders, The, Crockett . 7 

R-dimonsi, H. H. Jackson . 16 

Ranch Life and Hunting Trails, 

Roosevelt . 42 

Ransom’s Folly, Davis . 8 

Rape of the Lock, The, Pope . 28 

Real Soldiers of Fortune, Davis . 47 

Real Story of the Whaler. The, A. 

Verrill . 41 

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, K. D. 

Wiggin . 6 

Red Badge of Courage, The, Crane. . 17 

Red Belts, Pendexter .. 7 

Red Hanrahan, Stories of, Yeats .19 

Red Rock, Page . 10 

Red Rover, The, Cooper . 17 

Reds of the Midi, Gras . 16 

Regan, General John, Birmingham ... 14 
Return of Peter Grimm, The, Belasco 24 
Return of the Native, The, Hardy. .. 12 
Rewards and Fairies, Kipling . 20 














































































INDEX 


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Reynard tlie Fox, Masefield . 29 

Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, Service. 29 

Richard Carvel, W. ChurchiU . 8 

Richard II and Richard III, Shake- 

speare . 22 

Rider of tlie King Log, Day . 10 

Riders of the Purple Sage, Z. Grey ... 7 

Riders to the Sea, Synge . 26 

Right of SiiflFrage, The, Curtis . 48 

Right of Way, The, G. Parser. ii 

Right Royal, 29 

Rise of Silas Lapham, The, Howells.. 12 
Rising of the Moon, The, Gregory .... 26 

Rivals, The, 22 

Riverby, Burroughs . 36 

Riverman, The, S. E. White . 10 

Riverside Essays. 35 

Roaming Through the West Indies, 

Franck . 41 

Robin Hood. 5, 50 

Robinson Crusoe, Defoe . 16 

Roland, The Song of, {Anonymous).. 28 

Roland, The Story of, Baldwin .50 

Romance, Book of, Lang . 50 

Romance of Dollard, The, Catherwood 15 
Romance of the Colorado River, Dell- 

enhaugh . 42 

Romance of the Commonplace, G. 

Burgess . 34 

Romola, Evans . 15 

Roosevelt, Boy’s Life of, Hagedorn... 46 
Roosevelt in the Bad Lands, Hagedorn 42 
Roosevelt, Letters of, to His Children, 

Bishop . 47 

Roosevelt, Theodore, an Autobiog¬ 
raphy.. 43 

Roosevelt’s Writings, Roosevelt .33 

Rory O’More, Lever . 14 

Rough-Hewn, Fisher . ii 

Round the End, Barbour . 6 

Round the World in Eighty Days, 

Verne . 6 

Round-about, The,. 12 

Rubaiyat, The, Omar Khayyam . 28 

Rudder Grange, Stockton . 12 

Russian Life, Stories from, Tchekov .. 19 
Rutherford and Son, Sowerby . 24 

S 

Sailing Alone Around the World, 

Slocum . 38 

Sailor, The, Snaith . 9 

Sailor Town, C. P. 30 

Sailors’Knots,. 18 

Sailor’s Log, A, {Admiral) Evatts ..... 45 
Sarah Crewe and Other Stories, 

Burnett . 8 

Sartor Resartus, Carlyle . 34 

Satan, Stacpoole . 9 


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Scarecrow, The, Mackaye . 23 

Scarlet Letter, The, Hawthorne . ii 

Scarlet Pimpernel, The, Ofczy. 16 

Schurz, Autobiography, Schurz .43 

Scottish Chiefs, /. Porter . 7 

Sea and the Jungle, The, Tomlinson. . 41 

Sea-Hawk, The, Sabatini . 17 

Sea-lions, Cooper . 17 

Sea Wolfe, The, London . 9 

Seats of the Mighty, G. Parker . 15 

Second Inaugural Address, Lincoln... 48 

Second Post, The, Lucas . 48 

Secret Garden, The, F. H. Btirnetl ... 6 

Seegar, Letters and Diary of Alan, 

Seegar . 47 

Selected Letters, Center . 47 

Selected Short Poems, Browning .30 

Self-Cultivation, Palmer . 34 

Self-Reliance, Emerson . 35 

Sense and Sensibility, Austen . 12 

Sentimental Tommy, Bam'«. ii 

Septimus, Locke . 10 

Servant in the House, The, Kennedy, 23 

Sesame and Lilies, 34 

Set of Six, A, Conrad . 18 

Seven Princesses, The, Maeterlinck. .. 25 

Seven Seas, Kipling . 30 

Seventeen, Tarkington . 13 

Shakespere, Tales from. Lamb . 8 

Shandygaff, C. M or ley . 33 

She Blows, and Spann at That, Hop¬ 
kins . 9 

She Stoops to Conquer, Goldsmith .... 22 

Shenandoah, Howard . 22 

Shepherd’s Life, A, Hudson . 36 

Sherwood, A. Noyes . 22 

Ships and Sailors of Old Salem, Paine 37 
Short History of Discovery, Vaii Loon 47 
Short History of the World, Wells. . . 38 

Short Story, The, Atkinson . 21 

Short Stories. 21 

Siamese Cat, The, Rideout . 5 

Sicilian Idyls, Theocritus . 28 

Sigurd the Volsung, W. Morris . 29 

Silver Box, The, Galsworthy . 24 

Simba, S. E. White . 6 

Simon the Jester, Locke . 10 

Simple Life, The, Wagner . 33 

Sin and Society, Ross .37 

Sinful Peck, M. Robertson . 9 

Sir Nigel, Doy/e. 15 

Sir Roger de Coverley Papers, Addison 

and Steele . 35 

Sketch-Book, The, Irving . 34 

Sky Pilot, The, Conner . 10 

Sleeping Car and the Parlor Car, The, 

Howells . 25 

Small Craft, C. F. Smith . 30 

Smoke-Eaters, The, 0 ^Higgins . 37 






















































































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Snowbound, Whittier . 29 

Social Life of the Insect World, Fabre. 36 

Sohrab and Rustum, Arnold .29 

Soldiers Three, Kipling . 18 

Some Impressions of My Elders, 

Ervine . 44 

Some Strange Corners of Our Country, 

Lummis . 41 

Somehow Good, DeMorgan . 13 

Son of the Middle Border, A, Garland. 44 

Son of the State, A, E. P. Ridge . 7 

Songs of a Workaday World, B. Brad¬ 
ley . 30 

Soul of an Immigrant, The, Panunzio 43 

Soul of an Indian, The, Eastman . 33 

Soul of the Black Folk, The, DuBois. 33 

South America, Koebel . 41 

South Pole, The, Amundsen . 38 

Spain and the Spaniards, DeAmicis. . 42 

Spanish Gold, Birmingham . 14 

Spanish Gold, Stevenson . 14 

Spartan, The, Snedecker . 7 

Specimens of Letter Writing, Lock- 

wood and Kelley . 48 

Spectator, The, and Tatler, The, Addi¬ 
son and Steele . 35 

Speeches on Copyright, Macaulay .... 48 

Spell of China, The, Bell .41 

Spell of the Yukon, Service . 29 

Spiders, Fabre . 36 

Spreading the News, 26 

Spun-Yarn, Robertson . 18 

Spy, The, Cooper . 15 

Squirrel Inn, The, Stockton . 12 

St. Ives, Stevenson . 15 

Stage Reminiscences, Gilbert .43 

Stanley, The Story of, Golding . 45 

Stalky and Company, Kipling . 5 

Stevenson, Letters of, Colvin . 47 

Stevenson, Life of. 45 

Stevenson, Robert Louis, a Life Study 

in Criticism, Baildon . 45 

Stickeen, Muir . 8 

Stolen Story and Other Stories, The 

Williams . 19 

Studies in Stagecraft, Hamilton .37 

Stories, H. C. Anderson . 19 

Stories, Great Modern American, 

Howells . 21 

Stories, Great Modern English, 

O^Brien . 21 

Stories of a Boy, Galsworthy . 44 

Stories of Adventure Told by Adven¬ 
turers, Hale . 47 

Stories of Discovery Told by Dis¬ 
coverers, Hale . 47 

Story of a Bad Boy, The, T. B. Aldrich 5 
Story (or Romance) of a Child, The, 
Loti . 44 


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Story of a Round House, Masefield... 29 
Story of My Life, The, Helen Keller.. 44 
Street of the Flute-Player, The, Stac- 


poole . 13 

Strenuous Life, The, Roosevelt .33 

Strife, Galsworthy . 24 

Student in Arms, The, Hankey .33 

Suffrage for Women, W. Phillips. ... 48 

Sunken Bell, The, Hauptmann . 24 

Sussex Gorse, 5 '. Kaye-Smith . 9 

Sweet Lavendar, Pinero . 22 

Swiss Family Robinson, Wyss . s 

T 

Tales, Poe . 20 

Tales, The Best American, Trent. ... 21 
Tales from a Roll-Top Desk, Morley. 19 
Tales, A Little Book of Profitable, E. 

Field . 20 

Tales of a Traveller, Irving . 18 

Tales of a Wayside Inn, Longfellow .. 29 

Tales of the Fish Patrol, London . 18 

Tales of the Labrador, Grenfell . 19 

Tales of the White Hills, Hawthorne.. 19 

Tales of Troy and Greece, Lang .49 

Tales of Wayland the Smith, Lang. .. 50 
Tales of the Mermaid Tavern, Noyes. 29 
Tales, Second Book of Profitable, E. 

Field . 20 

Talisman, The, Scott . 16 

Talks on the Study of Literature, A. 

Bates . 34 

Talks on Writing English, A. Bates .. 34' 
Talks to Teachers on Psychology and 
to Students on Some of Life’s Ideals, 

W. James . 33 

Tam O’Shanter, Burns . 31 

Tamburlaine, Marloive . 22 

Tartarin of Tarascon, Daudet . 13 

Tartarin on the Alps, Daudet . 13 

Tartuffe, Moliere . 24 

Tempest, The, Shakespeare . 22 

Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog 

Sledge, Stuck . 40 

Tenderfoot with Peary, A, Borup. ... 40 

Tennessee Shad, The, O._ 5 

Tenting Tonight, Rinehart . 42 

Terrible Meek, The, Kennedy . 23 

There’s Pippins and Cheese to Come, 

Brooks . 32 

They of the High Trails, Garland. ... 19 
Three Musketeers, Dumas . 16 


Things that Have Interested Me, A. 

Bennett . 34 

Thirty Strange Stories, Wells . 20 

Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf, Muir- 41 
Thousand Year Pine, The Story of a. 

Mills ..36 

Three Welsh Plays, Peabody . 26 











































































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Three Wonder-Plays, Gregory . 25 

Through the Brazilian Wilderness, 

Roosevelt . 41 

Through the Glacier National Park, 

Rinehart . 42 

Through the Wall, Mojjet . 14 

Thunderbolt, The, Pinero . 23 

Tibet and Nepal, Landor . 38 

Time Machine, The, H. G. Wells. ... 15 

Tish, Rinehart . 14 

Tiverton Tales, A. Brown . 19 

To Have and To Hold, M. Johnston .. 15 

Toilers of the Sea, Hugo . ii 

Tom Brown’s School Days, Hughes. . 6 

Tom Grogan, F. H. Smith . ii 

Tom Paulding, Matthews . 8 

Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain . 5 

Tommy and Grizel, Bairie . ii 

Toussaint L’Ouverture, W. Phillips... 48 
Track of the Typhoon, The, Nutting. 38 

Trades and Occupations, Palmer . 37 

Tradition, Middleton . 25 

Trail Makers of the Northwest, Haw¬ 
orth . 40 

Trail of the Lonesome Pine, The, Fox 10 
Trails and Campfires, Roosevelt and 

Grinnell . 42 

Training Wild Animals, Bostock .35 

Tramping with a Poet (Lindsay) in 

the Rockies, Graham . 42 

Tramping with Tramps, Willard .43 

Trans-Himalaya, Sven Hedin . 38 

.Trapping Wild Animals, Mayer . 35 

Travel, Letters of, Kipling . 39 

Traveller, The, Goldsmith . 28 

Travels in Alaska, J. Muir . 39 

Travels with a Donkey, Stevenson. ... 39 

Treasure Island, Stevenson . 9 

Treasure Seekers, The, E. Nesbit . 5 

Trelawney of the Wells, Pinero . 25 

Tremendous Trifles, Chesterton . 33 

Trojan Women, The, Euripides . 21 

True Americanism, 48 

True George Washington, The, Ford. 46 
Truth About Blayds, The, Milne. ... 24 

Turmoil, The, Tarkington . 12 

Tutt and Mr. Tutt, Train . 20 

Twelfth Night, Shakespeare . 22 

Twelve Centuries of Prose and Verse, 

Newcomer . 31 

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the 

Sea, Verne . 6 

Twenty-three Tales, Tolstoi . 19 

Twenty Years at Hull House, J, 

Addams . 44 

Two Admirals, Cooper . 17 

Two Years before the Mast, Dana... 40 
Two Years in the Forbidden City, Der 
Ling White . 42 


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Typhoon, Conrad . 9 

Typee, Melville . 40 

Types of the Short Story, Heydrick .. 21 

u 

Ulysses, S. Phillips . 22 

Unchastened Woman, The. 26 

Uncle Abner, Post . 20 

Under the Deodars, Kipling . 18 

Under the Lilacs, L. Alcott . 8 

Under the Red Robe, Weyman . 16 

Understood Betsy, Fisher . 6 

Undine, Fouque . 18 

Ungava Bob, Wallace . 7 

Union Portraits, Bradford . 46 

Unofl&cial Letters of an Official’s Wife, 

Moses . 40 

Unwilling Vestal, The, E. L. White... 16 
Up from Slavery, Booker Washington. 44 
Uses of Adversity, Chesterton .33 

V 

V. V.’s Eyes, Harrison . 10 

Vagabond Journey Around the World, 

K, H. A. Franck . 39 

Vailima Letters (of Stevenson), Colvin 47 
Valley of Democracy, The, Nicholson 37 

Van Bibber Stories, Davis . 8 

Vanity Fair, Thackeray . 13 

Varied Types, Chesterton . 33 

Varmint, The, 0 . Johnson . 5 

Verse, Little Book of Modern, Ritten- 

house . 31 

Verse, Modern, Forbes . 31 

Verse, Second Book of Modern, Ritten- 

house . 32 

Verse, Standard English, Pancoast. .. 31 
Vicar of Wakefield, The, Goldsmith . . 17 
Victor of Salamis, The, W. H. Davis. 7 

Victoria, Queen, Strachey . 46 

Victorian Anthology, A, Stedman .... 31 

Views Afoot, Taylor . 39 

Viking Age, The, DuChaillu . 49 

Virginian, The, Wister . 10 

Virginibus Puerisque, Stevenson . 34 

Vision of Sir Launfal, Lowell . 30 

Viteau, Story of, Stockton . 7 

Viva Mexico, Flandrau . 40 

Vocations for Girls, Weaver . 37 

Voyage in the Sunbeam, Brassey . 39 

Voyage to the Arctic in the Whaler 

Aurora, A. Lindsay . 40 

Voyages of Captain Scott, Turley .... 40 
Voysey Inheritance, The, G. Barker.. 23 

W 


Waiting in the Wilderness, E. A. Mills 39 


Wake Robin, .36 

Walden, Thoreau . 36 


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Walking Shadows, Noyes . 18 

Walking-Stick Papers, Holliday . 32 

War in the Air, The, Wells . 6 

War Letters of Edmond Genet, Chap¬ 
man . 47 

War of the Worlds, The, Wells . 6 

Warden, The, Trollope . 12 

Wards of Liberty, . 20 

Warren Hastings, Macaulay . 35 

Washington, George, Sciidder . 46 

Washington, the Man Who Made Us, 

Mackaye . 22 

Water Babies, The, Kingsley . 6 

Watcher in the Woods, A, Sharp. ... 36 

Watchers of the Trail, Roberts . 36 

Wayfarer in China, A, Kendall .42 

Well of the Saints, Synge . 26 

Wellesley Stories, Cook . 20 

Welsh Fairy Tales, Griffis . 50 

Westward Ho, C. Kingsley . 15 

Whale Hunting with Gun and Camera, 

Andrews . 41 

What Can Literature Do For Me? 

Smith . 34 

What Every Woman Knows, Barrie.. 25 

What Men Live By, Cabot . 33 

What the Public Wants, Bennett . 25 

What’s Wrong with the World, Chest¬ 
erton . 33 

When I Was a Boy in Russia, Mokrie- 

vich . 44 

When I Was a Girl in Italy, Ambrosi. 44 

Where the Blue Begins, Morley . 13 

While Paris Laughs, Morley . 19 

White Company, The, Doyle . 15 

White Fang, London . 8 

White Shadows in the South Seas, F. 

O'Brien . 4© 

White Umbrella in Mexico, A, F. H. 

Smith . 40 

White-Headed Boy, The, Robinson... 25 

Why Go to College, Palmer . 37 

Wild Animal Ways, Seton . 35 

Wild Animals I Have Known, Seton.. 35 

Wild Brothers, Underwood . 35 

Wild Life of Orchard or Field, Inger- 
soll . 36 


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Wilderness, R. Kent . 39 

Wilderness Hunter, A, Roosevelt .42 

Windy Hill, if . 6 

Wing-and-Wing, Cooper . 17 

Winning of the West, The, Roosevelt.. 38 

Winter’s Tale, Shakespeare . 22 

Wisconsin Plays, Dickinson. .. 27 

Wisdom of Father Brown, The, Chest¬ 
erton . 20 

With Fire and Sword, Sienkiewicz.... 15 
With Poor Emigrants to America, Gra- 

ham . 39 

Woman in the Wilderness, A, W. 

James . 40 

Woman Tenderfoot, A, Seton . 40 

Women in American History, Has- 

brouck . 47 

Wonder Book, Hawthorne . 49 

Wonderful Visit, The, H. G. Wells... 15 
Wood-Fire in No. 3, The, F. H. Smith 19 

Works and Days, H. Mabie . 34 

Worker and His Work, The, Center .. 37 

Workhouse Ward, Gregory . 26 

Working My Way Around the World, 

L. M. Franck . 39 

Works of Man, The, Phillips .37 

World I Live In, The, Keller . 33 

World’s Best Orations, The, Brewer .. 48 

World’s Greatest Stories, Cody .21 

Would-be-Goods, The, E. Nesbit . 5 

Wreck of the Grosvenor, The, W. C. 
Russell . 9 


Y 

Yankee Girl at Bull Run, A, Curtis .. 7 

Yankee Ships and Sailors, Barnes .... 37 
Year with a Whaler, A, W, N. Burns. 40 


Yellow Jacket, The, Hazleton . 23 

Yesterdays with Authors, Fields .44 

You Are the Hope of the World, Hage- 

dorn . 33 

You Never Can Tell, G. B. Shaw .... 24 
Young Surveyor, The, Trowbridge..., 6 

Youth, Conrad . 18 

Z 

Zone Policeman 88, Franck .41 


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